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Guard House and Entrance Gate, Government Avenue, Company Gardens
Cape Town, Western Cape

Louis Michel THIBAULT: Architect
Date:1791
Type:Gatehouse
Style:Mannered Neo Classical
Status:Demolished

Guardhouse, drawings for side and front elevations, dedicated to Governor van de Graaff for Company Gardens. (Lewcock 1963:15;Fransen, 1968:788)

All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.


References:

Lewcock, Ronald. 1963. Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in South Africa : a study of the interaction of two cultures, 1795-1837. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 15