Melrose House

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  • Address
    275 Jacob Maré St, city centre
  • Phone
    322 2805

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Lonely Planet review

This neobaroque mansion, a national monument, was built in 1886 for George Heys, and it's a somewhat fanciful cross between English Victorian and Cape Dutch styles. During the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War, Lords Roberts and Kitchener (both British commanders) lived here. On 31 May 1902 the Treaty of Vereeniging, which marked the end of the war, was signed in the dining room.