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Date: 1929 : 1941 Type: Offices Style: Art Deco Status: Adaptive re-use Street: Greenmarket Sq   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°55'20.77" S 18°25'10.77" E Alt: 34m

The building was built in two stages, the first portion at the south western corner was built in 1929 (Pryce-Lewis list 15 305; plan deviations 15 405), the centre and remaining portion were completed in 1941. (SAB Aug 1932:xv, CT suppl; SAB Sep 1938:71; SAB Apr 1939:71; SAB May 1939:73; SA Archt May 1939:49 ill) It was used by the Shell Oil Company as their Head Office in Cape Town until 1979 and was then converted to a 170-room hotel for the Holiday Inn Hotels group, called The Inn on the Square. (Turtle SA) Became a Park Inn, date not available. Proclaimed a National Monument in 1961. Currently [2018] ONOMO Hotel Cape Town - Inn on the Square (ONOMO). (Information supplied by Jenny Calder, May 2018) 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 and articles that reference Shell House - Inn on the Square Rennie, John for CPIA. 1978. The Buildings of Central Cape Town 1978. Volume Two : Catalogue. Cape Town: Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. pg 141 item 56.2