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Date: 1887 Client: George Jesse Heys Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 275 Jacob Mare Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 25°45'19.51" S 28°11'32.65" E Alt: 1338m

(The Star 8 May 1971:7). Now a museum. Towards the close of the Anglo-Boer War the house was requisitioned as the British HQ, firstly being occupied by Lord Roberts, then later by Lord Kitchener. On 31 May 1902 the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed at Melrose House, on the dining room table. George Heys died on a visit to England in 1939, his wife having predeceased him by ten years. The property was inherited by the family. In 1968 Melrose House was acquired by the Municipality of Pretoria for use as a museum. 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 House George Heys, Melrose House Bakker, Karel A, Clarke, Nicholas J & Fisher, Roger C. 2014. Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens : A shared Dutch built heritage in South Africa. Pretoria: Visual Books. pg 137, 161 Gaylard, Shaun & McDougall, Brett . 2022. RSA 365 : 365 Drawings of South African Architecture. Johannesburg: Blank Ink Design. pg 59, 59 ill Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1977. Victorian Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pg 281, 296 ill, 297 Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg title page ill, 168 ill, 169 Richardson, Deirdré. 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. pg 208 Swart, Johan & Proust, Alain . 2019. Hidden Pretoria. Cape Town: Struik Lifestyle. pg 30-37