Page 85 - Bulletin 15 2011

82

station and now houses
Quagga Books.

Seeliger was a member
of the Cape Institute
of Architects for forty-
nine years. His home

Imbusch was in Kloof
Road, Cape Town, and
he married Anne (née
Fischer) from Stuttgart,
Germany, in July 1902. E. K.Green & Co. Kalk Bay - c. 1910
She predeceased him in 1922 and he died a widower, aged seventy-four
on 18 January 1938 at the Wheateld Nursing Home, Mowbray. He was
survived by one boy and four girls. One of his daughters, Ann Seeliger,
was a well-known and popular resident of Kommetjie. She lived in Ernst
Seeliger’s holiday home Lorelei which was one of four homes Seeliger
designed there. The attractive stone work exterior was a feature of these
homes. Ann Seeliger contributed many articles on the history of Kommetjie
and the book A Century of Kommetjie is dedicated to her memory.

Smith, Charles Henry (1863-1930) ARIBA (1895)

Charles Smith was born in London and served part of his articles with
Mr. Durrant, architect and surveyor, New Wandsworth, Surrey from 1879-
1880. He then left to complete his articles with the Royal Engineer’s

Architectural School at Chatham. He arrived in Cape Town in1887 where
he was appointed chief draughtsman to the Commanding Ofce Royal
Engineers, Cape Colony. He remained here until 1892, returned to England,
but was back here in 1896 wheQ he set up his own practice which lasted
until 1928.

His earlier works at St. James consisted of
additions to the home Pentrich for Fred Mills in
March 1917 and alterations and additions to 2
Westray Road (corner of Westray and Moselle
Road) for Mr. H. Barclay in September 1917. Here
Smith extended the north wall of the building to
include an attractive large bay window as well as
north facing rooms.

In 1919 Smith completed extensions and
additions to what was later to become one of the

Charles Henry Smith - 1905