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JW Jagger and Co Building and Warehouse Cape Town, Western Cape Anthony (Antonie) Mauritz DE WITT: Architect

Date: 1892 : 1895 Type: Warehouse Status: Demolished Street: St George near Hout (NE side)

With this building DE WITT claims credit for introducing the American Steel Skeleton frame structure for buildings to the Cape, hence South Africa. Later additions and alterations to warehouse. (Pryce-Lewis list3 326, 4 055; SAAE&S Jnl Sep 1907:212). 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 JW Jagger and Co Building and Warehouse Bakker, Karel A, Clarke, Nicholas J & Fisher, Roger C. 2014. Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens : A shared Dutch built heritage in South Africa. Pretoria: Visual Books. pg 53 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 82 ill, 83 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 114 Walker, Michael. 2012. Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The. St James: Michael Walker. pg 49-50