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Speculative House (a) for B Saperstein Orange Grove, Johannesburg, Gauteng Duncan McClean BURTON: Architect

Date: 1909 Client: B Saperstein Type: Homestead Style: Edwardian Status: Extant Street: 2-4 Central Road

In 1909 Mr B Saperstein commissioned the architect DM Burton to design two identical houses [also Speculative House (b) for B Saperstein] along former Second Avenue in Orange Grove on the border to Mountainview. The one sided triangular gable and the front stoep of the two bedroomed house were used as a main features and are still visible from the street. These houses must have been of the first houses in Orange Grove after its establishment in 1904. (See Heritage Register)