Permanent Building (Victory House), Johannesburg.

Location: 32 Harrison St, Johannesburg

Architect: WH Stucke

Date: 1896

Status: Extant

Housed: MacNamara’s Exchange / MacNamara’s Rialto

Permanent Buildings itself (amongst the oldest on the goldfields) belonged partly to the pioneer, R. S. Scott, who, with Emanuel Mendelssohn, started the earliest daily paper, the Diggers News (later the Standard and Diggers News) back in 1887.

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Map location

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Photos

Photo from Shovel and Sieve. Unindentified photographer. n.d.

 

Google Maps image from 2017.

Undated photo.( SAAR, 1948)

View from south-west. (Stucke Harrison archive)

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Sources

• Shovel and Sieve. Rosenthal, E. c.1959. George Allen and Unwin: London.
• South African Architectural Record, Feb 1948.