Art Nouveau Fireplace Tiles

Despite the bustling metropolis and modern African city of Johannesburg, the city and its historic houses have been used for period films and television dramas. Sammy Mark Museum and Melrose House in Tshwane places are very popular, as is the Windybrow Theatre in Johannesburg.

But there are many other less obvious sites throughout Gauteng that offer potential film locations. The most intriguing of these is "Lindfield Victorian House Museum. Furniture All the houses and interiors have been preserved with love, following a visit to this house is like a step back in time. Each room is fully furnished and equipped as it was when the house was first.

Parktown and Westcliff in Johannesburg are the obvious places to find the very finest historic homes in the province has to offer. They are two of the oldest districts of Johannesburg and home to the mining magnates from 1892 until today. The concentration of power and money, combined with the exuberant and extravagant taste of these pioneers is reflected in the houses they built on prominent ridges which lie north of downtown.

Glenshiel include historic homes, the house of Sir William and Lady Dalrymple, Pallinghurst (now School of Hope) and the house full of charm, the stables, with its lush gardens. Parktown was the first garden suburbs to be added to the mining town of Johannesburg, and Sir Herbert Baker designed many buildings, such as Stone House, Moot Cottage, St David's Place, Wanooka House Dolobran, Outeniqua and Parktown Convent.

Many are private residences, but there are historic homes now being used by large companies or public sector can be more easily accessible.

The view on St Andrews Road is a beautiful colonial building built in the neo-Queen Anne, owned and used by the Transvaal Scottish regiment would probably shoot, but under strictly controlled conditions. This red brick building opened in 1896 and is in good condition and features balconies on two floors, a study with wood sides and many fireplaces.

Jubilee Road, has many large houses that recall a bygone era of old Johannesburg 100 years ago. Outeniqua, North Savernake Lodge Ravenscraig and are the property of the University Wits. Renovations are underway at Gables End. It was built in 1903 and the style is "false" Tudor with dark shingle roof and exterior walls with white walls and heavy black beams. Savernake Road no 13 Jubilee was built in 1904. It is built in Arts and Crafts style with a blend of Art Nouveau features in the woodwork, brass fittings and leaded light windows galss. It is a two-storey house with a shingled roof. The corner turret rooms add a touch of whimsy. 19 Albermarle House in Troyeville is another beautiful house in the Art Nouveau style. It was always assumed to be one of the many houses of Gandhi during his stay in Johannesburg, but in reality, his home was 11 Troyeville Albermarle Street, a house much clearer. Back to Jubilee Road to No. 9 is an Edwardian house built in 1910. Today, this well maintained home is rented at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. The house has a porch lined with attractive Italian tiles and a solid teak door carved front. There is a lobby paneled with a graceful staircase.

The Sunnyside was built in 1994 is now the Sunnyside Hotel still retains its charm and elegance Eikenlaan Mikes Kitchen now retains its initial size of the unmanaged stand so that the relationship between house and garden can be viewed and lived here Wynnstay and currently used by the Youth Theatre are Johannesburg deleting all sites of Victoria in Parktown.

Three historic farms in the late 19th century are miraculously still in existence. To the east of downtown in Dewetshof is a farm 130 years, built in 1863, the farm Bezuidenhout. It th.