Kennedy and MacDonnell Rd postcards

could it be 28 kennedy road? it was built in the 1890s and would have been prominent... paul chater's behind it again too!

The building is thought to have been built in the late 1890s. The site was

first sold to the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company Limited

(香港置地投資及代理有限公司) in 1896. The Company was founded in 1889

by two prominent businessmen, Sir Catchick Paul Chater, an Armenian born in

Calcutta, and James Johnstone Keswick, a Tai-pan (大班) of Jardine, Matheson

& Company (怡和洋行). The Company changed its name into the Hongkong

Land Company Limited (香港置地公司) in 1971.

Since it was built, the building has had several owners and has been used

for a variety of purposes but mainly for educational purposes. The Queen’s

College (皇仁書院) used the premises as temporary school in 1948 until 1950

when the College moved. From 1961 to 1989, the premises was shared by the

Education Department and the Kennedy Road Junior School. It was used by the

Joint Liaison Group (中英聯合聯絡小組) for meetings in the 1990s prior to the

Handover. It is currently used as Office of the Former Chief Executive of the

Hong Kong SAR, the Hon. Tung Chee Hwa (董建華).

hi guys, the latest postcard makes it clear that after all original descriptions were correct. the split in the roads shows macdonnell heading uphill to the left (which it still does) and kennedy road downhill (also still does).  the large house must be where grand house, grosvenor house etc are now. the view now is blocked by the chinese foreign ministry building

here's a link to a photo showing a side view of the house in the postcards; also shows the scale of the british military hospital; the section at the back must have replaced by Island School. You can also see the gatehouse that's still there down the hill:

http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/object?svc=objrtv&src=CM&itemid=FIE8UB0EIXZQWD8@&pid=1&mime=image/jpeg