Randpark Ridge

==History==
The suburb has its origins as part of an old Witwatersrand farm called ''Boschkop'', named after the distinctive hill to north of the suburb, which is now the Boschkop Nature Reserve in the suburb of [[Boskruin]].<ref name="JHB01">{{cite web | url=http://joburg.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=51 | title=Joburg's oldest buildings | publisher=City Of Johannesburg | date=21 February 2003 | accessdate=31 October 2016 | author=Davie, Lucille}}</ref> On this land, an old brick farm house was supposedly built on the land in around 1860.<ref name=JHB01/> In 1903 the farm was owned by a J. Labuschagne and he sold part of the original land and farm house to [[John Dale Lace]].<ref name=JHB01/> He added on to the original Boer farmhouse; two gabled sections to either side, and a dam, built over the ''spruit'' (stream) that is a tributary of the [[Klein Jukskei River]].<ref name=JHB01/> At this stage the house had a total of 25 rooms. He would lose his 1300-acre country estate to [[Standard Bank]], who sold it to an Irishman, Tom Kelly, in 1927.<ref name=JHB01/> Kelly then renovated and extended the old farmhouse, changing its name to ''Hy Many.''<ref name=JHB01/> A tree lined drive  connected the farmhouse to the old Muldersdrift Road, now called [[Beyers Naude Drive]].<ref name=JHB01/> Kelly's daughter would sell the land in 1982 to the Gencor Trust and the land was rezoned for residential development.<ref name=JHB01/> Attempts were made to keep the house and have it listed, as it was due for demolition, but no funds could be found for its restoration.<ref name=JHB01/> By the early nineties it was run down and occupied by squatters before a fire destroyed the rear.<ref name=JHB01/> By 1994 the old farmhouse was bought by developers who demolished the burnt out section illegally and in 1996, fifteen townhouses were built around it.<ref name=JHB01/> The old farmhouse was modernized inside but the [[façade]] remains the same and has five original [[Jacaranda]] trees, possibly 90 to 100 years old.<ref name=JHB01/> Regarded as the oldest brick house in Johannesburg it now stands in Frangipani Crescent, Randpark Ridge.<ref name=JHB01/>