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General Information

Completion: 1897
Status: under renovation

Project Type

Function / usage: Post office / postal building

Location

Location: , ,
Address: Rissik Street
Coordinates: 26° 12' 15.59" S    28° 2' 32.38" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 102 m

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Rissik Street Post Office was built in 1897 during the time of Paul Kruger. Built and designed by President Paul Kruger's architect Sytze Wierda the Post Office was at one time the tallest building in Johannesburg.

The Post Office became a national monument in 1978, and it remained in operation until 1996 when the South African Post Office vacated the building. The monument was gutted by a fire in 2009. The reconstruction with an estimated cost of R147-million began in 2016.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Rissik Street Post Office" and modified on April 11, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20045655
  • Published on:
    23/06/2009
  • Last updated on:
    28/12/2019
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