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Date: 1894 Type: Opera House Status: Demolished 1930s Street: Grand Parade, c/o Darling Street and Grave Street (later renamed Parliament St)   Click to view map Coordinates: Alt: 28m

(Pryce-Lewis list item 2 471) This building was replaced by the Grand Central Post Office. Books that reference Opera House Johnson, Brian Andrew. 1987. Domestic architecture at the Cape, 1892-1912 : Herbert Baker, his associates and his contemporaries. Cape Town: Unpublished Thesis UNISA. pg 360 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 57, 82 ill Radford, D. 1979. The architecture of the Western Cape, 1838-1901. A study of the impact of Victorian aesthetics and technology on South African architecture. Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Dept of Arch. University of the Witwatersrand. pg 110