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Date: 1886 Type: College Status: Extant Street: Ryneveld St   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°56'01.49" S 18°51'43.35" E Alt: 117m

Picton-Seymour (1977:135) ascribes the building to RM ROBERTSON. Now part of the University of Stellenbosch Victoria College - Old Main Building Wording on the National Monuments Council plaque. OU HOOFGEBOU HIERDIE GEBOU IS DEUR CARL OTTO HAGER ONTWERP OM DIE STELLENBOSCH-KOLLEGE DOELTREFFEND TE HUISVES. DIE HOEKSTEEN IS OP 22 DESEMBER 1880 GELÊ. 'N GEDEELTE VAN DIE GEBOU IS OP 15 OKTOBER 1883 IN GEBRUIK GENEEM, MAAR DIE VOLTOOIDE GEBOU IS EERS OP 6 NOVEMBER 1886 AMPTELIK DEUR DIE ADMINISTRATEUR VAN DIE KAAPKOLONIE, GENL.-MAJ. D'OYLEY TORRENS, GEOPEN. IN 1887 IS DIE NAAM VAN DIE STELLENBOSCH-KOLLEGE VERANDER NA VICTORIA- KOLLEGE. NA DIE OPRIGTING VAN ANDER KOLLEGEGEBOUE, IS METTERTYD HIERNA AS DIE OU HOOFGEBOU VERWYS. IN 1964 IS DIE SYVLEUELS VERLENG EN DIE WESTELIKE VLEUEL AANGEBOU. Raad vir Nasionale Gedenkwaardighede OLD MAIN BUILDING THIS BUILDING WAS DESIGNED BY CARL OTTO HAGER TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE STELLENBOSCH COLLEGE. THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID ON 22 DECEMBER 1880. PART OF THE BUILDING WAS OCCUPIED ON 15 OCTOBER 1883 BUT THE COMPLETED BUILDING WAS ONLY OFFICIALLY OPENED ON 6 NOVEMBER 1886 BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE CAPE PROVINCE, MAJOR GENERAL D'OYLEY TORRENS. IN 1887 THE NAME OF THE STELLENBOSCH COLLEGE WAS CHANGED TO THE VICTORIA COLLEGE. AFTER THE CONSTRUCTION OF OTHER COLLEGE BUILDINGS THIS ONE WAS REFERRED TO AS THE OLD MAIN BUILDING. IN 1964 THE SIDE-WINGS WERE EXTENDED AND THE WESTERN WING ADDED. National Monuments Council 1979 Declared a National Monument in 1973, now a Provincial Heritage Site. (SA Illus News 1886, dwg) 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 Victoria College - Old Main Building - Ou Hoofgebou 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 179 Gaylard, Shaun & McDougall, Brett . 2022. RSA 365 : 365 Drawings of South African Architecture. Johannesburg: Blank Ink Design. pg 58 ill Krige, Ode. 2015. Carl Otto Hager : argitek tot eer van God, 1813-1898. Hermanus: Hemel & See Boeke. pg 174, 175, 181, 207 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 134 ill, 135 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 118