No. 1 Barker Road

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not sure when built or demolished, though I think it went in the past few years.  thanks to aetse

Source: This image came from Flickr, see https://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=3754405051

Date picture taken
1982
Tags
colonial
The Peak
Barker Road
Image from Flickr
Author(s)
aetse
Gallery
1980s Hong Kong
Shows place(s)
Residence of the USA Consul-General [????- ]
Farnborough - RBL 69 [????-????]
Normandie, 22 Severn Road / 409 The Peak [????-????]

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Fri, 03/05/2010 - 18:54

Again, I'm just going on what I knew in school over a decade ago and that was the house further up the hill, and to the left in this picture was the US Consul's house. Although I can't recall having seen it recently, the US flag flew proudly above the house.

I just grabbed this photo from Google Street View so you can see what is there now.

 

Click on the photo to see a larger image.

There are three buildings in this photo:

  1. The main building in the foreground is, as Annelise says, "1 Barker Road"
  2. Above that we can see the corner of a platform, with a curved building on it. That may be part of 3 Barker Road, the US Consul General's House.
  3. Then in the distance on the skyline is a much smaller building with a curved balcony.

I'll change the title of this photo from "No. 3 Barker Road/Former U.S. Consul General's House" to "No. 1 Barker Road".

In 1959, a foreign diplomat rented this house. Two Chinese maids also lived in the house, one in her fifties and the other in her twenties. One day, the fifty-year-old maid hanged herself. Even more terrifying, the next day, the twenty years maid also died mysteriously in the workers' room. Later, the diplomat himself inexplicably collapsed and had to be rushed to the hospital. Afterwards, the residents frequently heard the mournful wails of a female ghost, and rumors of the house being haunted spread. After recovering, the diplomat moved out of the house. The house was abandoned for at least for 10 years.