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HESSE, Francois

Born: 1887 05 26
Died: 1956 01 25

Architect


Year registered: 1927

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, son of Folkert Wilko HESSE and his wife Antje (nee Groeneveld) (See Family search) He immigrated with his family to South Africa in 1902 where they settled in the Cape. It would appear that he received his architectural training from his father where it is recorded that 'his son, working with him just now (1906), is a very promising and clever pupil.' (Men of the Times, 1906:213)

In Cape Town he practiced both on his own account and in partnership or in association with his father, FW HESSE (cf HESSE & HESSE, FW & F). Hesse was listed as an Associate member of the Cape Institute of Architects in the RIBA Kalendar 1915/16. He later practised in Nigel, Transvaal.

He married Johanna Wilhelmina Elizabetha Catharina Maritz on 1920 04 07 by whom he had two children, a daughter Sheila and son Francois Maritz.

His memorial plaque is in the Brenthurst graveyard in Brakpan (See eGGSA library). [Submitted by Morné van Rooyen.]

(ISAA mem list; RIBA Kal 1915/16)

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

Catholic Church: 1932. Salt River, Western Cape - Architect
Hospital: 1939. Nigel, Gauteng - Supervising Architect
House and garage for WP Steinkamp: 1929. Wynberg, Western Cape - Architect *
House for F Hesse: 1912. Muizenberg, Western Cape - Architect *
Ice cream factory and flats: 1929. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect *
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: c1925. Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1935. Charl Cilliers, Mpumalanga - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1925. Memel, Free State - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1925. Petrusville, Northern Cape - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1926. Central, Stellenbosch, Western Cape - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1922. Vredefort, Free State - Architect
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk - Third: 1914. Hopetown, Northern Cape - Architect ascribed
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk Hall: 1926. District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect *
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk Zwaanswyk: 1932. Retreat, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect
NG Kerk Saal: 1924. Riviersonderend, Western Cape - Architect
Town Hall: 1930. De Aar, Northern Cape - Architect

Books citing HESSE

ISAA. 1927. Register of Members the Institute of South African Architects. Johannesburg: ISAA (Unpublished Record). pp H4

Richardson, Deirdré. 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. pp 22

Transvaal Publishing Co. 1906. Men of the Times : Old Colonists of the Cape Colony and Orange River Colony. Johannesburg, Cape Town and London: The Transvaal Publishing Co. pp 213 infra