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Built: 1751-1771 Status: Demolished Unidentified photographer.¹ Timeline In August 1752, after the dedication and commissioning of the completed church building, the Church Council, under the strong leadership of Rev. Voltelen, decided to make an active start on building the parsonage. The marriage of Rev. Voltelen to a young Cape lady and the arrival of the first minister's wife to settle in the new congregation on the Zwartland church grounds probably also hastened the decision to build a proper parsonage. However, the Voltelen couple did not have the privilege of being the first occupants of the elegant and comfortable new parsonage. The parsonage on the church grounds of the Zwartland congregation, the design and construction of which had already received urgent attention from the minister and his church council during the time of Rev. Voltelen, was ultimately only completed in December 1771. In 1788, the elegant and comfortable minister's residence was further embellished...

Built: 1897 Architect: Unidentified Location: Cnr Van der Westhuizen & H.F. Verwoerd St., Heidelberg Early Photo.¹ When Rev. Adriaan Jacobus Louw arrived in Heidelberg on 8 April 1893, there was no parsonage available for him and his family. This was because of the ongoing bitter property dispute between the united NG/Hervormde congregation and the breakaway NH faction (the old Hervormde pastorie of Ds. N.J. van Warmelo was at the centre of the conflict). His family stayed temporarily in a hotel; because of his wife’s health, he sent them back to the Cape while he stayed on alone. The new NG pastorie (the house he and his family eventually occupied) was built using stone and materials salvaged from the old Kruiskerk (the first small church, demolished in 1891). In December 1896 the church bought two erven (numbers 98 and 99) in Van der Westhuizenstraat from J.A. Smit. The house was officially taken into use on 5 November 1897 (the boundary wall was not yet completed). This is ...