Public Library - Kuils River
Architect: Unidintified Date completed: 1957 Style: Cape Dutch Revival Location Notes " Thanks to an initial donation by Stella Weich, and the untiring energy of Mr Louis Hurwitz over a number of years, Kuils River can now be proud of a very fine new library built in the Old Cape Dutch style. It contains the largest audio-visual room of all the libraries, and with Gordon’s Bay, comes up to public library standards. " (1957) Louis Hurwitz was Chairman of the Kuils River Library committee. (late 1950s) In 1892 when Mr Pieter Francois de Wet became principal of Kuils River Primary School , the school consisted of two reasonably large classrooms (located on the premises of the current public library of Kuils River in Carinus Street). It was a thatched-roof building, without a ceiling. (Vermaak) " Tydens die inspeksie van April 1893 het mnr. Lee melding gemaak van die nuwe tweevertrekgebou, van die bevredigende beligting en ventilasie en van die netheid van beide klask...