SIEMERINK and BRINKMAN

Architect

The partnership in Port Elizabeth between H SIEMERINK and his daughter Geertruida BRINKMAN, who had trained at the University of the Witwatersrand and qualified in 1932. Before or during 1935 she married JF BRINKMAN and, having worked in her father's office since 1932, joined him in partnership in 1935 together with her husband, the style of the firm becoming SIEMERINK & BRINKMAN. PduP VAN ROOYEN joined the firm which became SIEMERINK, BRINKMAN & VAN ROOYEN. After the retirement of SIEMERINK, KE BROWN became a partner changing the name to BRINKMAN, VAN ROOYEN & BROWN and then BRINKMAN, VAN ROOYEN, BROWNE & SUTTON after the arrival of SUTTON.

(ISAA mem list; Modus vol 2 no 1 1987)

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

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Car storage buildings for General Motors (SA): 1936. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Ethel Valentine Primary School: 1944. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Garage for Messrs Van Sandwyk, Edwardes Pty: 1936. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Glengarry Court: 1939. Summerstrand, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

High School, hostel: 1939. Humansdorp, Eastern Cape - Architect

Highview : 1937. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

House AJ Karstaedt: c1939. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

House GL Lippsteu: 1938. Redhouse, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

House Green - 'Pinecones': 1937. Mill Park, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

House Stockelbach - Ridgewood: 1936. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

House Westwood - 'Eltham': 1931. Mill Park, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Kirkwood High School: 1936. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Livingstone Hospital: 1955. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Marine Hotel: 1939 : 1948 : c1995. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect 1939 : 1948

Middelburg & Cunningham Schools, adds: 1936. Middelburg, Eastern Cape - Architect

Mill Park Bowling Club Pavilion: 1933. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Mobbs Factory: 1952. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1941. Balfour, Eastern Cape - Architect

North End Public Library: 1936. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Paul Kruger High school, hostel: 1939. Steynsburg, Eastern Cape - Architect

Primary School: 1935. Jeffrey's Bay, Eastern Cape - Architect

Primary School, adds: 1936. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape - Architect

Provincial Hospital, coloured [sic] servants' quarters: 1937. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Queen Mary Hospital - Ward block, mortuary, ext to nurses' home: 1935. Kariega (Uitenhage), Eastern Cape - Architect

School and teachers' quarters, Hanover Rd School: 1939. Hanover, Northern Cape - Architect

Sidwell Primary School: 1937. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

South End Boys' Club: 1939. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Victoria GHS boarding house, adds: 1936. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape - Architect

Walton Orthopaedic Home: 1947-1948. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Zwartkops Mineral Baths Sanatorium: 1915 : 1922 : 1938. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Books citing SIEMERINK and BRINKMAN

Harradine, Margaret. 2004. Hills covered with cottages : Port Elizabeth's lost streetscapes. Port Elizabeth: Historical Society. pp 288

Harradine, Margaret. 1994. Port Elizabeth : a social chronicle to the end of 1945. Port Elizabeth: E.H. Walton Packaging (Pty) Ltd. pp 205, 207, 211, 215, 221, 229, 233

McLachlan, Gavin. 1993. The Dream Houses of Mill Park. Port Elizabeth: Department of Architecture, University of Port Elizabeth. pp 24, 78, 102