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		La Provence, now Grande Provence Franschhoek, Western Cape GABRIËL FAGAN ARCHITECTS: Restoration Architect

Date: c1760 : 1815 : 1969 Type: Homestead Style: Cape Dutch Status: Extant

Farm settled by the French Huguenot Pierre Joubert in 1694. Original farmstead built by Pieter de Villiers after he took ownership in 1756. In 1800 he converted the ground plan from a T to an H and changed the frontage to the road and added the facade gable. His widowed wife remarried to Pieter Joubert who rebuilt and remodeled the front gable in 1815. It is a fine authentic example of the Cape Dutch style in the neoclassical idiom. It was restored in 1969 after slight earthquake damage by Gawie Fagan. For further information on the measured drawings see Pearse Collection. Books that reference La Provence, now Grande Provence De Bosdari, C. 1953. Cape Dutch Houses and Farms, their architecture and history. Cape Town / Amsterdam: AA Balkema. pg 82 Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 282 Hartdegen, Paddy. 1988. Our building heritage : an illustrated history. South Africa: Ryll's Pub. Co. on behalf of the National Development Fund for the Building Industry. pg 31 Hoefsloot, Ted (illustrations) & Pama, Cor (text). 1980. Cape Wine Homesteads. Johannesburg: AD Donker. pg 70 & 71 (ill)