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 Price Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng Sydney Percival Hill MITCHELSON: Architect

Date: 1905 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 39 Jan Smuts Avenue   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°10'44.62" S 28°01'49.46" E Alt: 1731m

Transcription of Blue Plaque ANGLO-BOER WAR 1899-1902 CENTENARY COMMEMORATIONS 39 JAN SMUTS AVENUE This house was designed in 1905 by Percival Hill Mitchelson for American mining engineer, Charles James Price, manager of Geldenhuis Deep Gold Mine. When war broke out the technical staff of the mines formed the Railway Pioneer Regiment to repair war damage done to the railways. Railways were essential to the British army for moving troops and supplies. Price served as captain in the first battalion. Parktown Westcliff Heritage Trust