Some Herbert Baker Buildings in South Africa
- St Boniface Church Germiston
- Bishop Bavin School St. George's
- Bishop's Lea, George
- Cecil John Rhodes Cottage, Boschendal
- Champagne Homestead, Boschendal
- Dale College, King William's Town
- Glenshiel, Johannesburg
- Grey College, Bloemfontein
- Honoured Dead Memorial in Kimberley, Northern Cape
- McClean telescope building, Royal Observatory, Cape Town
- Michaelhouse, Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal
- Northwards, Johannesburg
- Pilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown
- Pretoria Station
- Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town. Baker used a design similar to the Greek Temple at Segesta.
- Rhodes University, Grahamstown
- Roedean School, Johannesburg
- School House, Bishops Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town
- South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg
- St Andrew's School for Girls, Johannesburg
- St Anne's College Chapel in Pietermaritzburg
- St George's Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
- St John's College, Johannesburg
- St Margaret's (1905) Rockridge Road, Parktown
- St Michael and All Angels, Observatory, Cape Town
- Stone House, Rockridge Road, Parktown. Baker's own house and the first he built in Johannesburg
- Union Buildings, Pretoria
- Villa Arcadia, Johannesburg
- Workers Village at Lanquedoc, Boschendal
- Wynberg Boys' High School, Cape Town
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