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Post Office - Second
Muizenberg, Western Cape

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT: Architect
Isa CAMERON: Artist tiled panel

Date:1934
Type:Post Office
Status:Extant
Street:Main Road

 


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Coordinates:
34°06'29.37" S 18°28'04.82" E

A double storey Post Office Building, with two large tiled Ceramic Studio panels. The panels are by Isa CAMERON, and depict large seafaring sailing boats and are set into the hammer dressed sandstone wall at ground floor, on the Main Street facade.

The building is no longer used as a post office and is currently vacant (Dec 2010).

[William MARTINSON, Dec 2010]


Books that reference Post Office - Second

Osthoff, Gernot . 2022. Post Office Murals of South Africa. South Africa: Gernot Osthoff. pg 17, 17 ill, 18, 18 ill, 19-20 ill
Walker, Michael . . The Post Office Murals : And the early milestones of the South Peninsula. Kalk Bay: The Kalk Bay Historical Association. pg 10-13