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Cape Dutch Revival
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If Herbert BAKER can take credit for a South African style it is certainly Cape Dutch Revival, an appreciation he developed under the sway of Rhodes' enthusiasm for the style. It was possibly made easier for him to assimilate the style since Queen Anne, with its distinctly Dutch origins, was fashionable in England at the time, and his affinity for the Arts and Crafts movement would have engendered in him an appreciation for the Cape vernacular. His 'restoration' of Groote Schuur for Rhodes was spurious, since later research has shown the original conversion of the barn to have been neo-classical in Georgian style. This did however lend official sanction to a style which was at the time in decay and the survival of those buildings done in the style under threat. BAKER's essay The origin of old Cape architecture coupled with Elliott's photographic record helped spur public awareness of and appreciation for the style. (Baker, H. 1900. The Origin of Cape Architecture. In Trotter, A. Old colonial houses of the Cape of Good Hope. London: Batsford ; Viney, G. 1987. Colonial Houses of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik-Winchester)
Buildings on this website in Cape Dutch Revival style
AGS - AFM Church: c1930. KwaNojoli (Somerset East), Eastern Cape   |
| Albany Museum - Second: 1945. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape |
| Barclays Bank - now First National: 1909 : 1940. Central, Paarl, Western Cape |
| Barclays Bank - now First National: n.d.. Southern, Paarl, Western Cape |
| Brook House: 1925. Brooklyn, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng |
| East London Harbour : Malan Memorial: n.d.. East London, Eastern Cape |
| Electrical Sub-Station: n.d.. Muizenberg, Western Cape |
| Gerrit Worstsaal: n.d.. Potchefstroom, North West |
| House CJ Rhodes: The Woolsack: 1900. Cape Town, Western Cape |
| House Dura - Die Eike: 1966. Alphen, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| House Elliot - 'Lindani': 1924. Mill Park, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape |
| House HAC Becker - Monmouth: 1930. Paradise Estate, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| House Lipschitz - Noordhoek: 1938 : 1969. Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng |
| House Mann: 1928. Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape |
| House PSM Arbuthnot - now Brook House: 1925. Brooklyn, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng |
| House TA Gardner: 1934. Muizenberg, Western Cape |
| House Wijers - River Meadow Manor: 1926. Irene, Gauteng |
| Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1953. Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape |
| Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerksaal - Hall: 1891 : 1938. Philadelphia, Western Cape |
| NG Kerk Saal - Church Hall: 1926. Hopefield, Western Cape |
| Old Town Hall: n.d.. Alberton, Gauteng |
| Post Office: 1948. George, Western Cape |
| Post Office: 1938. Winburg, Free State |
| Railway Station: n.d.. George, Western Cape |
| Railway Station: 1936. Riversdale, Western Cape |
| Railway Station: 1929. Qonce (King William's Town), Eastern Cape |
| Railway Station: n.d.. Irene, Gauteng |
| Railway Station: n.d.. Malmesbury, Western Cape |
| Railway Station - Second: 1918. Potchefstroom, North West |
| Richmond House - Cock's Castle - New: 2002. Port Alfred, Eastern Cape |
| Rust en Vrede: 1905. Muizenberg, Western Cape |
| Town Hall: 1910-1911. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape |
| Town Hall - Second: 1932-1933. Rustenburg, North West |
| University of Stellenbosch, Department of Education - Opvoedkunde-gebou: 1913. Stellenbosch, Western Cape |
| Victoria Hall: 1910-1911. Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape |
| Village Hall and Library: 1923 : 1965. Irene, Gauteng |
| Voortrekker Museum (Previously Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk - Voortrekker Kerk / Geloftekerk - Church of the Vow): 1841 : 1861 : 1916. Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal |
| Westlake Golf Club House: 1939. Cape Town, Western Cape |