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Rose and Crown Hotel
District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape

John PARKER: Architect

Date:1897
Type:Hotel
Status:Demolished
Street:105-107 Hanover/Tennant St

(PSB:43)

This hotel was one of many in Cape Town that had closed by the mid-1930s and thereafter operated as a bar only. After the hotel closed, the building apart from the bar was occupied by a number of businesses including a laundry, a chemist and a shoe-shop (Walker 2015: 10).

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.


References:

Walker, Michael. 2015. Old hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911), The : A history long forgotten, seldom told. St James: Published Privately. pg 10 + ill, 71