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BOWEN, Ernest David William

Born: ?
Died: 1956 04

Architect


Year registered: 1928

Little is yet known of Bowen's career. In 1905 he was already living and practising in East London. He is recorded as assisting Arthur SAVAGE in the design of his own house (now the Ann Bryant Art Gallery) in 1905 as building contractor. Currently only two buildings from this period have been recorded. He retired in 1947.

ISAA 1928. (ISAA mem list)

He is listed as a Past Master of the FreemasonsBuffalo Lodge in East London in 1906.

(William MARTINSON, January 2011)

List of projects

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House Savage - now Ann Bryant Art Gallery: 1905. Belgravia, East London, Eastern Cape - Contractor
Shell House - Now Electricity House: 1939. East London, Eastern Cape - Architect
Standard Printing Co, extensive alt: 1935. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Books citing BOWEN

Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pp 118