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SMITH and DEWAR

Established: 1900
Ended: 1903

Architect


The partnership in Port Elizabeth between GW SMITH and W DEWAR from about 1880; they were joined by Smith's sons later, the partnership becoming SMITH, SON & DEWAR and then SMITH, SONS & DEWAR. The firm was responsible for a number of domestic and commercial buildings in Port Elizabeth.

(Smith 1985; Harradine 1985; Trehaevan 1985)

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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Collegiate School for Girls: 1900. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect 1906
House FH Rees: 1907. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect
House WJ Wills: 1905. Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), Eastern Cape - Architect
McDonald & Vardy Building: 1880s. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect
Mosenthal Building - A Mosenthal & co. - Saambou: 1900-1903. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect
Vardy House for Vardy bros: n.d.. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect
YWCA: 1906. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

Books citing SMITH and DEWAR

Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pp 185, 188, 189, 193, 197

Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pp 106