American Consulate - Consul General of the USA - 2nd generation [1958- ]

Submitted by annelisec on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 19:57
Current condition
In use
Date completed
(Month is approximate.)

Far Eastern Economic Review - 1956

A new four-storey United States Consulate-General building will be erected adjacent to the present Consulate at 26 Garden Road.  Construction will take about one year.  The new building will face Garden Road, parallel to the present Consulate building.  Once the new building is completed, the present structure will be demolished.

Previous place(s) at this location
HSBC Manager's House and Sub-Manager's House - IL 580 [1861-1935]
American Consulate - Consul General of the USA - 1st generation [1950-1957]

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Consulate General of the United States Building 1958
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American Consulate
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American Consulate
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Comments

Legco comment 1937

I do not know whether it is proposed to develop by building the site of the former Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank houses in St. John's Place, but I venture to express the hope that this is not the intention. I agree with what I understand was our late Governor's, Sir Andrew Caldecott's, view that such development of the Battery Path and Garden Road area would be vandalistic commercialization of what should be one of the most beautiful parts of Hong Kong. (Applause).

Please could the completion date be updated to June 1957, to match the comment from Moddsey above and the notes on Wikipedia.