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Date: c1940 Type: Homestead Status: Adaptive re-use Street: Mentz Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°15'36.68" S 28°27'40.10" E Alt: 1600m

This fine regional modernist style double storey house was designed for Dr Urbani, who came out to South Africa in the 1930's to escape the rise of Mussolini in Italy. He managed to escape internment during the war because he worked for Union Carriage, which company manufactured bogey wheels for Sherman tanks. He rose to General Manager of Union Carriage and was Mayor of Nigel. House Urbani was subsequently converted into six flats. Reference: Peter Urbani, grandson of Dr. Urbani, commenting on the Facebook Group "Springs - History of a Gold Town" (William Martinson, September 2021)