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President. In 1938 the Institute built a large hostel and garages to Black
and Fagg’s design with access from the north-west corner (Harris Road).
During the Second World War the hostel was converted into the Red Cross
Thalassa Auxiliary Military Hospital.

William Black was a City Councillor and an early member of the Cape
Institute of Architects. He passed away suddenly on 16 July 1922 at his

home in Green Point after contracting double pneumonia while on business
up-country. He was aged fty-four and left his widow, Sidney Kate, and
three young children. His death was great shock to the architectural world
as he was at the height of his career. William Fagg continued the partnership
with Black’s brother, Herbert, who returned to Australia in the mid-1930s.

Cherry, Fred (1867-1932)

Fred Cherry was born in Kingston, Ireland and served his articles with
McCurdy and Mitchell in Dublin. He came to the Cape in 1890 and joined
the Public Works Department in Cape Town. In 1892
he left the Public Works Department and set up his
own practice. His work in St. James started in
October 1913 when he re-designed a home for
Mrs A.M. Anderson in Leighton Road, St. James
from an original three-bedroom house into a
large seven-room house. Four years later, in
October 1917, he designed a large home (today
known as Riviera, 6 Pentrich Road) for Mr. W.E.

Hammond. This house stands on the north side
of Pentrich Road where the road ends and the steps
begin. On the south side opposite the home stands
Bangaloo, No. 3 Pentrich Road. This home was Fred Cherry - 1905
originally the stables of William Fletcher’s home
Pentrich and lay behind the main house. Cherry converted these stables into
a home for the Mills family who had bought Pentrich from the deceased
estate of William Fletcher in 1922. He did this by adding a further two
bedrooms, a kitchen, servants’ quarters and a verandah Cherry’s other work
in St. James was the design in May 1923 of a home for Martin Nugent in
what was then known as the Villa Capri Estate (now Capri Road).

Cherry died on 28 March 1932 at Albany Flats, Main Road, Sea Point,
aged sixty-ve. He was survived by his wife Emma and two daughters.