Frank Emley

Frank Emley was an important architect in early Johannesburg in the practices of Leck and Emley and Emley and Williamson.

Emley was born in Newcastle in 1861. He worked as an assistant in his fathers firm who specialised in church fittings. He is only known to have designed one building in England, Corbridge Town Hall.

During his time in Johannesburg, Emley designed masterpieces in a variety of styles, ranging from the Victorian Eclecticism of Hohenheim, to the grand Edwardian Baroque of the Rand Club, The Neo-Classicism of The university of the Witwatersrand to his Art Deco sky scrapers of the 1930s.

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