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		Royal Hotel and Arcade Cape Town, Western Cape Robert MacBeth ROBERTSON: Architect 1903

Date: pre-1888 : 1903 Type: Hotel Status: Demolished mid-1960s

Original architect unidentified, additions and alterations done by RM ROBERTSON in 1903. The dining room became the first Woolworths shop. Position can be seen on the Insurance Plan, courtyard building just below the 'S' of Plein Street. (Submitted by Paul VAN DER MERWE; Plan accessed November 2015) (SAA&B May 1905:157) 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: Anonymous . 1897. The Cape Town Guide. Cape Town: Dennis Edwards & Co. pg 107 Walker, Michael. 2015. Old hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911), The : A history long forgotten, seldom told. St James: Published Privately. pg 51 + ill, 52