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Date: 1860 : 1928 Type: Sailors' Home Status: Demolished Street: Lower Burg St/Prestwich St

The foundation stone was laid by Prince Alfred on 18 September 1860. The Home was built to accommodate up to 85 “discharged and destitute” seamen. 1928: Quarters for sailors added by CH SMITH (Pryce-Lewis list 15 473). This building was demolished in the early 1930s. The site is now part of Thibault Square. (Arthur Radburn). References: CPIA Committee. 1983. The Buildings of Cape Town 1983 : Phase Two. Volume Three : Catalogue and Classification. Cape Town: Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. pg 209 item 30.3 Johnson, Brian Andrew. 1987. Domestic architecture at the Cape, 1892-1912 : Herbert Baker, his associates and his contemporaries. Pretoria: UNISA (unpublished MA thesis). pg 394 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 Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis.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 137, 232