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Click to view large map Coordinates: | Additions and alterations by Fred CHERRY (Pryce-Lewis list 3 054). Cherry changed it from a single-storey hotel to three storeys with 21 bedrooms in 1894. Dennis Edwards & Co included it in their Cape Town Guide (1897: 109) as one of the leading hotels in Cape Town at the time.It was renamed the City Hall Hotel in 1902. William Grant (MacGILLIVRAY & GRANT) designed a saloon bar in 1911, and an extension towards the City Hall and a new roof façade in the mid-1920s (Walker 2015: 34; Pryce-Lewis list 8 401). When Rennie inspected the building in Feb 1978, it was still the City Hall Hotel. He noted: “Old central city site. Old fabric possibly survives” (1978: 222). Nothing of the late-Victorian façade of the hotel had remained by that time. Google Street View of 2009 shows a bar and liquor store on street level, and a lounge advertised on the first floor. No hotel signage. When the building was sold in 2015, the ground floor was turned into shops. Submitted by Lila Komnick References:
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