Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2627CA17
    Site Name
    Administration Building, Potchefstroom College of Agricultural, Potchefstroom
    Site Category
    Record Administration
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    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
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    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
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    Architectural features

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    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -26.73543, 27.072667
      North West
      • Dr Kenneth Kaunda
      • JB Marks
      Land Parcel Details
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      Street Address
      Land Parcel Reference
      Potchefstroom
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
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      Statement of Significance

      Both the Administration Building, which was the first building of the Potchefstroom College of Agriculture to be erected and which was occupied in 1907, and the Selborne Hall in which the Africander Cattle Breeders' Society was established in 1912, are closely associated with the history of agriculture in South Africa.

      Declaration
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      Declaration Description

      The historic Administration Building and Selborne Hall at the Potchefstroom College of Agriculture, situate on Portion of the Town and Townlands of Potchefstroom 435-IQ, known as the Experimental Farm, District of Potchefstroom, Province of the Transvaal and measuring eight hundred and fifty-nine (859) morgen, three hundred and seventeen (317) square roods.
      Certificate of Registered Title 7394/1953, dated 8/4/1953.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      5367
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      2555
      Archive Status
      National monument
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