BAKER, MASEY and SLOPER

Architect

The partnership, based in Johannesburg, between H BAKER, FE MASEY and EW SLOPER. According to Sloper's obituary (cf. SLOPER), he arrived in Cape Town in 1902 and joined Baker's office there. He accompanied Baker to Johannesburg and became a full partner in Johannesburg in 1903. The partnership lasted from 1903 until 1907, continuing for a year and a half after Sloper returned to England. Sloper, a gifted architect and designer and a practical man as well, was greatly valued by Baker, who bought two copies of Sloper's book English House Design, published in 1911. Between Baker and Sloper a number of houses were designed which were to have considerable influence on house design in South Africa for about half a century. According to Greig (1970), Sloper played a significant role in the designs for the work on the Westminster Estate in the Orange Free State.

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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Christ Church: 1906 : 1926 : 1959 : 1979. Arcadia, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect 1906

Church of St John the Divine: 1905. Randfontein, Gauteng - Architect

Church of the Ascension, Hilton: 1905. Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal - Architect

Church of the Holy Trinity: 1907. Turffontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Church of the Innocents, Volksrust: 1907. Volksrust, Mpumalanga - Architect

City Deep Mining Co: n.d.. The Hill Township, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Crown Mines housing schemes: n.d.. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Eckstein's Compound (staff houses for the Corner House): 1902?. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

General's House: 1902. Thaba Tshwane (Robert's Heights; Voortrekkerhoogte), Gauteng - Architect

Government Buildings - Third Raadzaal - National Museum of Afrikaans Literature: 1875 : 1895 : 1906 : 1911. Bloemfontein, Free State - Architect 1906

Government House: 1903. Bryntirion, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect

House A Balfour: Pilrig: 1903. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Archdeacon and Mrs Furse: Bishopskop: 1904. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Brown - Dykeneuk: 1904. Kensington, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House CH Barclay: Towie: 1903. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Chaplin - Marienhof - Brenthurst: 1904 : 1935. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Douglas Pennant - The Thatched House: 1904. Riviera, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House George Farrar, Bedford Court - now St Andrew's School for Girls: 1904. Bedfordview, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Howard Pim - Timewell: 1905. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Lionel Curtis: The White House: 1906. Muckleneuk, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect

House Lionel Phillips: Villa Arcadia: 1909. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Millin: 1909. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Mrs Dale Lace: Northwards: 1904. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Mybergh: Athol House: 1902. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House R Feetham: The Moot House: 1905. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

House Walter Webber - Ednam: 1906. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Northwards: 1904 : 1912. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Observatory - later the Union Weather Station: 1904. Observatory, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Pilrig: 1903. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Roedean School: 1904. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

South African College of Music (Music School): 1904/5. Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

St George's Church: 1908. Cullinan, Gauteng - Architect

St George's Church: 1904 : 1910. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect 1904

St John's College: 1907 : 1913 : 1933 : 1937. Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect 1907

St Luke's Anglican Church: 1907. Orchards, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

St Michael's Church, Sunnyside: 1908. Sunnyside, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Architect

St Peter's Anglican Church: 1903. Krugersdorp, Gauteng - Architect

Standard Bank: 1905-1906 : n.d.. Kroonstad, Free State - Architect

Taynult: 1904. Waverley, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Villa Arcadia: 1909. Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Village Deep Mining Co housing schemes: n.d.. Johannesburg, Gauteng - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Alford: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Beauchamp: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Belgrave: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Broxton: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Chesham: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Crichton: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Eaton: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Ecclesfield: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Grosvenor: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Halkyn: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Lumley: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Madersfield: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Malpas: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Newlands: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Ormonde: 1904. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Shaftesbury: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Stables: 1904. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: The Big House: 1904. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: The Schoolhouse: 1906. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Westminster Estate Buildings: Wyndham: n.d.. Tweespruit, Free State - Architect

Books citing BAKER, MASEY and SLOPER

Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pp 140-141, 165

Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pp 174