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Name: HOOGTERP, Jan Albert FRIBA
Birth Date: 27.12.1892 Johannesburg
Death Date: 6.1.1972 Johannesberg
First Date: 1925
Profession: Dutch architect Joined Herbert Baker in 1911. Opened office in Nairobi in 1925
Area: Box 677, Nairobi
Married: 1935 Jacqueline Harriet 'Cockie' Alexander (prev. m. to Benedict Birkbeck 1886-1934 and Bror von Blixen 1886-1946) See her entry under Birkbeck
Book Reference: Midday Sun, White Man, Red 31, Hut, Rift Valley
School: Amersfoort Technical School, Amsterdam
General Information:
Midday Sun - Hoogterp also created the new capital of N. Rhodesia for Eric Dutton - Lusaka
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 17 Apr 1928 - J.A. Hoogterp
Gazette - 4/11/1925 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - J.A. Hoogterp, Architect, PWD
Midday Sun - 'the brilliant but erratic Hollander, Jan Hoogterp, whom Baker put in charge of his EA building programme.'
White Man - two fine Government Houses, designed by Baker & Hoogterp were built.
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Expunged from Nairobi North Register - J A Hoogterp, Architect, Box 677, Nbi
Architect of Govt Ho, Nbi; Govt Ho, Msa; Parklands Church, P of Wales School; Nbi School, Nakuru School; Nbi Medical research Labs and Law Courts; Maia Carberry Nursing Home