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Jagger appears to have done no major changes to Balgarthen until 1919
when he called in Charles Smith, (who did all J.W. Jagger & Co.’s work) to
redesign the double-storey home with major additions which included two
bedrooms at the back of the house and a large impressive verandah in the
front opening onto the garden (6210). Builder: Bakker & Co.

Smith’s most prominent work in St. James was, however, the design of

CHolnamara, 20 Main Road which was constructed for William C. Robb.
The home is a Provincial Heritage Site (11 May 1984). Here Smith’s Cape-
Dutch revival architecture was used to great effect with a double gable
frontage and the well known ‘Groote Schuur’ twirling chimneys.

Smith died at his residence nnnnnn“The Rest” corner of Bonair and Main Roads
Rondebosch on 28 November 1938, aged sixty-seven. He had two boys
and two girls from his rst marriage to Annie, whom he divorced in 1923,
whereafter he married Lilian Maud (neé Pound). They had no children.

William Hood Grant (1877-1957)

William H Grant was born in Dundee, Forfarshire and educated at
Dundee High School. He remained in Dundee spending three years at the
Dundee School of Art, where he studied architecture and art, and won a

National Bronze Medal in 1896. He came to the Cape in 1901 and worked
for George Ransome where he met Donald MacGillivray, his future
partner until 1907.
Grant’s association with St. James came in the form of him designing the
‘new’ Stonehenge for a Mrs. Ansaldi in 1930,

while his involvement in Kalk Bay was more
prominent.

Here in 1926/28 Grant was involved in
two major hotel projects. The rst was the
extension to the Majestic Hotel in July 1926,
where he designed a triple-storey (ground and
two oors) extension to the VRXWK end of the
hotel as well as a new dining-room service
bar and cloakrooms in the centre of the hotel.
Builders: F. Bakker and Co. The second major
hotel project was the design in 1928 pf the
New Kings Hotel, corner of Main and Windsor
Roads, for the South African Breweries after
the demolition of the old Kings Hotel.

William Hood Grant - 1913