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		Harbour Board Offices Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape JONES and McWILLIAMS: Architect John Weir RUSHMERE: Restoration Architects 1999

Date: 1905 Type: Offices Style: Liberty Style Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°57'43.95" S 25°37'30.11" E

Won in competition (NM) Oberholster 1972 attributes the building to Jones, McWilliams, Brown and Grosse. The Harbour Board building, also known as the White building was built in 1904. The architecture, woodwork, staircase and ceiling make it on of the best examples of buildings in the Art Nouveau style in South Africa. (National Monuments Council plaque 1978) The building was refurbished in 1997-98 by John RUSHMERE, to the color scheme of Mira FASSLER-KAMSTRA. (SAA&B Aug 1905: 213-15 ill; SAB Dec 1924:13 ill; SAAR Jul 1946:185) All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference Harbour Board Offices Oberholster, JJ. 1972. The historical monuments of South Africa. Cape Town: Rembrandt Van Rijn Foundation for Culture at the request of the National Monuments Council. pg 135, 136 ill Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 38, 193, 194 ill, 195 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg 107