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Sir Herbert Baker Collection: Recent submissions

  • Court house and government offices 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-08-01)
    View from the street of the Potchefstroom courthouse and government offices. Use of bull's eye ventilators on the roof of the courthouse.
  • Potchefstroom Girls' High School 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-08-01)
    View of the Potchefstroom Girls' High School, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The brick building with corrugated-iron hipped roof is placed on a stone plinth. It has arched windows and niches.
  • Potchefstroom government offices 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-08-01)
    Photograph showing the front of the Potchefstroom Government Offices, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The brick building has a corrugated-iron hipped roof. A central arched entrance is placed between two other entranceways ...
  • Regents Park School 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-08-01)
    View of Regents Park School in Johannesburg, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The brick building has a corrugated-iron hipped roof.
  • Ladysmith Post Office 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-08-01)
    View of the Ladysmith Post Office showing the main entrance. It was designed by Sir Herbert Baker in an eclectic style, with Arts & Crafts as well as Classical elements. The front elevation displays a denticulated entablature ...
  • Parktown automatic telephone exchange 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the automatic telephone exchange in Parktown, Johannesburg. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker, it has sash windows, a tiled roof & arched entranceways.
  • Potchefstroom Government Office entrance 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the entrance to the Potchefstroom Government Offices, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The arched doorway is topped by a broken pediment and flanked by columns and bull's eye windows.
  • Zastron Kindergarten building 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the Zastron Kindergarten from the street. The simple building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and has plastered walls, sash windows, a hipped corrugated-iron roof, and a veranda.
  • New ward for Pietersburg Hospital 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the front of the new ward for Pietersburg Hospital, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The brick building with tiled roof and veranda is placed on stone foundations, and has quoining at its corners.
  • Swimming Baths, Warmbaths 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the swimming baths building in Warmbaths, designed in Arts & Crafts style by Sir Herbert Baker. The building has plastered walls, a tiled roof, and quoining around the entrance arch.
  • Booysens police barracks 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the Booysens police barracks in Johannesburg, showing the entrance and the street in front of the barracks. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker in Arts & Crafts style, the building has a hipped roof, wood-framed windows ...
  • Christiana High School 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of Christiana High School. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker, it has sash windows and quoining at the corners and around the arched entrances.
  • Boksburg school 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View from the street of Boksburg school, designed by Sir Herbert Baker in the Edwardian style, with Arts & Crafts characteristics. The building has a ventilation tower on the ridge of the pitched roof.
  • Jeppestown automatic telephone exchange building 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the Jeppestown automatic telephone exchange in Johannesburg. The brick building with tiled, hipped roof has sash windows. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker, it displays characteristics of the Arts & Crafts style.
  • Ficksburg school 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of Ficksburg School, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. It has sash windows, walls of what appears to be pitch-faced ashlar, and a corrugated-iron gambrel roof.
  • Grey College ladies' hostel 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View of the back of Grey College ladies' hostel in Bloemfontein, designed by Sir Herbert Baker in Arts & Crafts style. The building has brick foundations, plastered walls and a tiled, hipped roof. The loggia is topped by ...
  • Boksburg School 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-31)
    View from the south of the Boksburg school, designed by Sir Herbert Baker in the Edwardian style, with Arts & Crafts characteristics. The pitched roof of one of the buildings is topped by a ventilation tower, and another ...
  • Delville Wood Memorial entrance from Queen Victoria Street 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-18)
    Entrance from Queen Victoria street to the Delville Wood memorial in Cape Town, including the bronze group and lay-out.
  • Construction team of South African Mint building in Pretoria 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946; Yates, Alan (2008-07-18)
    Photograph showing construction team of the South African Mint building in Pretoria, including contractor P.W.D Clerk of Works and Building Foremen.
  • Delville Wood Memorial, Cape Town 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-07-18)
    View of the bronze group and lay-out of the Delville Wood memorial, Cape Town.