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Click to view map Coordinates: | In 1890 George RANSOME was responsible for a complete rebuild of the hotel for L Synter Properties (Pryce-Lewis list 2 344). In 1904 A Epstein, a wealthy property developer, for whom COOKE had previously designed several earlier projects, including a first-floor balcony for the hotel in 1902, requested a complete redesign of the previous building. It is possible that he did this in association with DE WITT. The executed design is described by Picton-Seymour (1977: 58) as: ... a delightful building on gin-palace lines ...It later became the Regent's Palace, thereafter the Hotel Louis Botha. It was demolished in 1967, together with other buildings in that street block, to make way for the government building 120 Plein Street. (SAAE&S Jnl Sep 1907:212; SAWW 1908; AB&E Sep 1922:1). 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. Books that reference Palmerston Hotel - Regent's Palace - Hotel Louis Botha
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