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Location
Location
- Frances Baard
- Sol Plaatje
Address:
2 Atlas Street
Belgravia
Kimberley
Gradings
Grading
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
This building, designed by th architect D W Greatbatch, was erected in 1897 as a recuperative hotel and was known as the Kimberley Sanatorium. In 1908 De Beers Consolidated Mines changed the name to Belgrave Hotel and it served as a luxury hotel until 1931. From 1933 to 1971 the building was used as a Catholic school. It was then transferred to the McGregor Museum for museum purposes.
Declarations
Declaration
The facade of the 1897 McGregor Museum building, together with the front rooms consisting of the lounge, the dance hall and the entrance hall, as well as the stairway and the stretch of land to the road frontage, situated on certain remaining extent of Erf 13449, Kimberley, in the Municipality and Administrative District of Kimberley.
Deed of Transfer 295/1976, dated 30 March 1976.
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