Contact Artefacts
please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.

Beresford House
Johannesburg, Gauteng

EMLEY and WILLIAMSON: Architect
Frederick WILLIAMSON: Design Architect

Date:1925-1927 : 1934
Type:Offices with shops to street
Status:Unknown
Street:Main/Simmonds St

Alterations were done in 1934 also by EMLEY & WILLIAMSON.

PEARSE's obituary for Williamson lists this work as being among the most important buildings in Johannesburg.

(SAB Feb 1927:39; SAB Jul 1927: 25 ill)

All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.


References:

van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark. 1987. From Mining Camp to Metropolis - The buildings of Johannesburg 1886-1940. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. pg 189 ill, 201, 202 ill