Northwards House

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Northwards House is a prominent South African mansion, located on the Parktown Ridge, in Johannesburg. The building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker, Francis Massey and Ernest Sloper. Northwards has its origins in the world's largest Gold Rush and the Boer War. The mansion and its owners were a central part of Parktown, a residential suburb set apart from a mining town, with churches, schools, parks, a zoo and a forest. This beautiful building (and the neighbouring houses) were part of the Secretary of State for the Colonies's efforts to rebuild South Africa and manufacture a set of European values that firmly establish the empire in South African soil, with the intention of expanding this influence "northwards".