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  • Silesia Buildings 
    Unkown (2011-07-25)
    Main Street, A good example of the Neo-Classic facade, with triangular window pediments, and ornamental balconies and gable.
  • Standard Bank Buildings 
    Stucke & Bannister (2011-07-25)
    Fox, Harrison & Commissioner streets, 1906, original elevational drawing. Image 518.
  • General Mining and Finance Building 
    Unkown (2011-07-25)
    Corner Marshall and Hollard Streets. Formerly the United Engineering Company. A fantasy in stone-a most grandiose building, with elaborate detailing culminating in the picturesque. Features are the central semi-circular ...
  • National Bank 
    Unkown (2011-07-25)
    Market street. This was the first National Bank building demolished about 1906, when the new bank building was built in the same style as the adjoining Corner house block. Image 169.
  • Residence in Parktown 
    Baker, Sir Herbert (2011-07-25)
  • Magistrates' Court 
    Unknown (2011-08-02)
    View of the building fronting onto New Street North and Joubert Street. This buildingwas surrounded by tall blue-gum trees for many years, these striking an incongruous note in the city pattern. Johannesburg's first Court ...
  • Standard Bank Buildings 
    Davies Bros. (2011-08-02)
    Commissioner street, off Sauer street. Fremch Renaissance style was adopted for the Mining Camp's first double-storeyed Bank. The building is still existing today, and is thus one of the city's oldest. Portion of the ...
  • Rand Club 
    Unknown; Reid & McCowat (2011-08-02)
    The leading club of the Mining Town, with libraries, restaurant, billiard room and bedrooms. On the same site as the presemt Club, fronting onto Loveday, Fox and Commissioner Streets. Extensive use of cast iron and stock ...
  • Pritchard Street 
    Unknown (2011-08-02)
    1889, corner of Rissik, showing buildings on present Stuttaford's site. The tower of St. Mary's Hall is in the middle distance. "A hive of industry and a nursery of great expectations..."
  • Market Square, 1900. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    From the Post Office, looking South West. On the extreme right is the Market Hall. 1900.
  • Thabana, Kensington, Johannesburg 
    Photo: F.Fisher (2011-08-04)
    Kensington, originally the home of Mr. Sam Marks, the great Mining Magnate of early Johannesburg. Date Unkown.
  • Chamber of Mines Building 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    All Johannesburg's Victorian architecture is stamped with a certain amount of ostentation arising out of exuberant and excessive decoration. Once the early pioneers realised that Johannesburg was there to stay and was ...
  • Steytler's Building 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    Facing the Market Square, c/o Market and Loveday Streets. Date unknown.
  • Pritchard Street, 1889. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    Corner of Eloff Street showing on the left, the first Chundleigh's Building site of the present O.K.Bazaars and across the road, the single-storey building on the present Cuthbert's site.
  • Palace Buildings, 1889 
    Donaldson, J.S. (2011-08-04)
    Corner Rissik and Pritchard Streets, Johannesburg's most famous landmark from the historical building point of view. Characterised by its picturesque appearance arising out of intricate detailing and the fascinating, ...
  • Harrison & Market Streets, 1889. Johannesburg 
    Unknown (2011-08-04)
    In the foreground is the old Standard Bank. In this photograph is embodied the character of the mining camp. A great forest of corrugated iron glistening in the midday sun.
  • The Historic Buildings of Johannesburg: Character of late Victorian Architecture. 
    Stoloff, Cyril A. (2011-08-04)
    Letter detailling the history of Johannesburg's late Victorian Architecture, as dispalyed in the Cyrill Stoloff photograph collection. The photographs are held in the Architecture School, Library and Archival Collection, ...
  • Stuttaford & Co. 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    The first building in Rissik Street c/o Pritchard Street, originally Thorne & Stuttaford. Date Unknown.
  • Johannesburg's first Public Library 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    On the site of the present Woolworth's Building, also the site of the original wood and iron structure of 1894. "Neo-Classic" facade. 1898.
  • Ziman's Building, Johannesburg 
    Photo: Africana Museum (2011-08-04)
    Market Street, which housed the premises of Hepworth's, the clothiers, and the first branch of Cuthbert's, the Shoe store. Adjoining this building in Harrison Street, was the first South African Mutual Building. Date unknown.

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