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General Post Office
Central Cape Town, Western Cape

Henry [Harry] Sidon GREAVES: Design Architect
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT of the CAPE COLONY: Architect

Date:1897
Type:Post Office
Status:Demolished late 1940s
Street:Adderley Street

 


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Coordinates:
Alt: 50m

Recorded as providing accommodation for the Attorney General's Office (Pryce-Lewis list 3 954).

The building was demolished in the late 1940's and replaced with the new OK Bazaars Building (Shoprite since 1996)

(Gerald Humphrey, April 2022)


Books that reference General Post Office

Parker, Howard. 2015. John Parker, 1866-1921 : architect and mayor of Cape Town. Wellington, New Zealand: Howard Parker. pg 21 ill
Walker, Michael. 2012. Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The. St James: Michael Walker. pg 28-29