BLACK and FAGG

Architect

This was a partnership between W BLACK, H BLACK and WG FAGG from 1904 in Cape Town. By September 1905 the firm had moved into their new premises in the recently completed Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York Building. WG Fagg was assistant to W Black for nearly ten years before being admitted to partnership. Herbert Black, admitted to the partnership in the same year, seems to have gone his own way a few years later. After Black's death in 1922, Fagg carried on the practice as Black & Fagg. In 1929 the firm was awarded the first of the CPIA/Argus Bronze Medals for their work on the Standard Bank on the corner of Adderley and St George's Streets in Cape Town. The practice was a flourishing concern and one of the most prolific in Cape Town.

(Cape Times dir 1940; Cumming-George 1933; Johnson 1979; Johnson 1987; Picton-Seymour 1977; Rennie 1978; Restorica Jul 1982:6; SAA&B Mar 1904: 101; Oberholster 1982)

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

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

African Life Building: c1932. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Attwell's Bakery Co: 1928. Lakeside, Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect

Bain's Building: pre-1908. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Baptist Church Hall: 1932. Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Baptist Church Mission Hall: c1926. District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Boys' High School: 1927 : c1933. Observatory, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect *

Braeside: 1913. St James, Western Cape - Architect

Brown and Annie Lawrence Home: 1936. Pinelands, Western Cape - Architect

Caledon Baths - Sanatorium - Hotel: pre 1905 : pre 1911. Caledon, Western Cape - Architect additions

Cape of Good Hope Savings Bank: pre-1908. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Cape of Good Hope Seminary: n.d.. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Claridges Hotel: n.d. : 1893 : 1903. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect *

Esme Cottage: 1918. St James, Western Cape - Architect

Flat Iron Building: 1901. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

General Estate & Orphan Chambers: c1925. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

High School, Piketberg, bldg: 1935. Piketberg, Western Cape - Architect

Hoërskool Swartland High School : 1912 : c. 1961. Malmesbury, Western Cape - Architect : 1912

House AJ Stigling: 1924. Malmesbury, Western Cape - Architect

House D Martin: 1932. Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

House Friedlander: 1916. St James, Western Cape - Architect

House Frost - Woodlea: 1936. Kalk Bay, Western Cape - Architect

House Hart: c1930. Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

House Lawrence: 1936. Pinelands Garden City, Pinelands, Western Cape - Architect

House Van Zyl: 1911. Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

House Wood: 1901. Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect 1924

Iris Villa - Twee Gewels: 1915 : 1948. St James, Western Cape - Architect

Ladies’ Christian Home: n.d. : 1893 : 1931 : 1934. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect 1931 : 1934 *

Methodist Church: 1930 : 1950. Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect 1930

Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1915. Gordon's Bay, Western Cape - Architect

Post Office: pre-1911. Caledon, Western Cape - Architect

Preparatory School: 1938. Moorreesburg, Western Cape - Architect

Presbyterian Church: 1931. Langa, Western Cape - Architect

RC Convent, Rondebosch: 1906. Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Roxton: 1921. Kalk Bay, Western Cape - Architect

Rust Station Primary School: 1933. Malmesbury, Western Cape - Architect

School, Wolseley: 1930. Wolseley, Western Cape - Architect

Shops/offices for GD Kearns: 1934. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Standard Bank: 1930. Beaufort West, Western Cape - Architect

Standard Bank: 1881-83 : 1897 : 1919. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Standard Bank: 1928. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Standard Bank - ABC Branch: 1931. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Standard Bank, Albert Rd: 1937. Salt River, Western Cape - Architect

Standard Bank, Caledon St - First: 1931. District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Station Hotel: pre 1889 : 1900 : 1901 : 1912. Newlands, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect 1912 *

Synagogue: 1924. Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect

The Mearns - Sorrento: 1913. St James, Western Cape - Architect

Thomson Watson Building - Flat Iron Building: 1901. Foreshore, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect *

Town Hall: 1906. Caledon, Western Cape - Architect

Town Hall: 1907-09. Potchefstroom, North West - Architect

Town Hall: 1912. Robertson, Western Cape - Architect

Town Hall: pre-1911. Victoria West, Northern Cape - Architect

Villa, Oranjezicht: 1905. Oranjezicht, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Wesleyan Methodist Church: 1932. Langa, Western Cape - Architect

Woodlea: 1936. St James, Western Cape - Architect

References

Walker, Michael. 2010. A Statement In Stone. Cape Town: Privately published by Michael Walker. pp 61-67