The Albany Museum Complex comprises five museums and is the second oldest museum in the country. The original Albany Museum was established in 1855 by the Graham's Town medical-Chirurgical Society (later the Literary, Scientific and medical Society). ...

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Area: Grahamstown, South Africa

The Anglican Cathedral Church where the Bishop of Grahamstown keeps his throne or cathedra is built in Early English Gothic, the 13th Century architectural style revived during Queen Victoria's reign. The building was started in 1824 and finally completed ...

Area: Grahamstown, Cacadu District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Rhodes University Campus. View the prehistoric coelacanth fish thought to have been extinct.

Area: Grahamstown, Cacadu District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

In 1844 a gathering of Settlers was called to consider how best to observe the Silver Jubilee of the settlement. Rev. William Shaw proposed that a chapel be built, to be called Commemoration Chapel and that the foundation stone be laid on the 10th April ...

Area: Grahamstown, Cacadu District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The Cory Library at Rhodes University collects material of all kinds to support research into the history of Southern African and related fields in the social sciences.

Area: Grahamstown, Cacadu District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

South Africa's oldest official letter box stands in Grahamstown on St. Andrew's College corner, at the north-west end of Worcester Street where it intersects with Somerset Street.

Area: Grahamstown, Cacadu District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The Drostdy Gate was designed by Major C.J. Selwyn in 1835 and built by the Royal Engineers in 1841 or 1842. The purpose of his gateway was to provide an entrance to the military establishment which was to be on the site of the unoccupied and unused Drost ...

Area: Grahamstown, Cacadu District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

This University was founded in 1904 as an offshoot of St. Andrew?s College. In 1910, the architectural firm of Baker and Kendall won a competition to design the university buildings. The Herbert Baker style became a hallmark of the university and has ...

Area: Grahamstown, Cacadu District, Eastern Cape, South Africa