1900. Lot 27 - Knysna Manor House. This property, which stretched between Fichat Street and Main Street, was granted in freehold to William Gunn McPherson in 1864 by the Governor Sir Philip Wodehouse. In 1872, after McPherson’s unfortunate death in 1870, killed when he fell from a post cart on return from Uniondale, the land was sold out of his estate to Hjalmar and Rolf Thesen, who were then living in a building on this site in Main Street known today as Harry B’s. The property was again offered for sale and purchased in 1892 by erstwhile Mayor of Knysna Henry Percy Morgan, proprietor of the West End Hotel, later to be known as the Imperial Hotel. This building was built by Andrew Hepburn of the Knysna Forest Co. for Henry Percy Morgan in 1900. In the 1930’s the building had rooms to let, where Beatrix Antoinette Lotz (later the second wife of Knysna Mayor Commander Ashley Lindsay Foakes) gave Afrikaans lessons. In 1939, the building was offered for sale out of the estate of the late Mrs Margaret Morgan, the widow of Henry Percy Morgan. During the period 1945 to 1960 the Heunis family owned the house, when it operated as a boarding house for teachers and students of the Knysna High School. Classes were also held here. In 1992 the building was re-named the Knysna Manor House.