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House Bryden - Tower House
Florida, Gauteng

Date:1910
Type:Homestead
Style:Victorian
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
26°10'28.50" S 27°55'05.70" E

The house was built by Robert Bryden for his wife Elizabeth who was a teacher who had taught in the concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War. The turret room was built for their eldest ailing son David who succumbed to tuberculosis in 1913 at the age of four.