Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		General Post Office Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape Henry [Harry] Sidon GREAVES: Design Architect PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT of the CAPE COLONY: Architect

Date: 1900 Type: Post Office Status: Extant Street: Fleming Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°57'45.95" S 25°37'26.98" E Alt: 10m

Designed in 1897 it was opened to the public on 25 June 1900 but was only fully completed in 1902. Richardson (2001:38) ascribes the building to HS GREAVES but in the biography of AG HOWARD it states that he did the drawings, which in those days usually meant he designed them. Books that reference General Post Office Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 189 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg 104 Richardson, Deirdré. 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. pg 38