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		House Mellor - Jesmond Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng Harold Nixon PORTER: Architect 1922 JF BONIFACE: Architect 1999

Date: 1922 : 1999 Type: Homestead Status: Extant but altered Street: 64 The Valley Road   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°10'37.92" S 28°01'58.10" E Alt: 1720m

Transcription of Blue Plaque: PARKTOWN RIDGE HERITAGE AREA JESMOND The house was designed in 1922 by Harold Porter for Dr Edward Thomas Mellor who, in 1917, was a geologist with the Transvaal and Witwatersrand Geological Surveys. He published the definitive geological map of the Witwatersrand and became consulting geologist to the Rand Mines Group. Later owners include William Mc Ewan, a judge of the High Court and Joylon Nuttall of The Star. The house was extensively altered in 1999 by architect J. F. Boniface for her parents. (Source: The Heritage Portal)