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		International Hotel Gardens, Cape Town, Western Cape Anthony (Antonie) Mauritz DE WITT: Architect add 1896, alt 1899, redesign 1902

Date: 1884 : 1896 : 1899 : 1902 Type: Hotel Status: Demolished 1970s Street: Mill Street/Schoonder Street   Click to view map Coordinates: Alt: 53m

(SAWW 1910) The International was once one of De Witt's most imposing buildings; the off-sales, in Swiss chalet style, originally housed a post office in one half, complete with Victoria Regina post box let into the wall, above which hung a square lantern, the name of the hotel shining white through the deep blue glass. (Picton-Seymour 1977:84) Dennis Edwards & Co included it in their Cape Town Guide (1897: 109) as one of the leading hotels in Cape Town at the time. Books that reference International Hotel Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 84 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 Transvaal Publishing Co. 1906. Men of the Times : Old Colonists of the Cape Colony and Orange River Colony. Johannesburg, Cape Town and London: The Transvaal Publishing Co. pg 434 Walker, Michael. 2012. Early architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820 - 1926) with postcard illustrations, The. St James: Michael Walker. pg 52, 53 (ills.) Walker, Michael. 2015. Old hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911), The : A history long forgotten, seldom told. St James: Published Privately. pg 28-31 + illus