Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Date closed / demolished
Dates from the AMO's website:
[...] Construction works started in 1851 and took four years to complete. At that time it enjoyed a fine harbour view. It was originally built in the Georgian style and bore rich colonial characteristics. It underwent a number of large-scale renovations, with the latest undertaken in 1942, during the Japanese Occupation, by a Japanese engineer, Siechi Fujimura [...]
Later place(s) at this location
Photos that show this Place
c.1854
1857
1860
Comments
Judging by old records, this
Judging by old records, this first Government House stood in what we now know as Wanchai, on a slight elevation about the level of the eastern end of Kennedy Road. It was in a suburb known as Spring Gardens - hence the present Spring Garden Lane. The General's House, built about 1844, was marked in some maps as the Governor's house - actually, it was the house of the Lieutenant-Governor, a post existing at that time and held by Major-General D'Aguilar. The present Government domain was not built upon until 1850-53, when it would seem a new gubernatorial residence was erected. This stood, according to an old Admiralty chart, where the present Government Offices are. The Government House as we know it to-day was completed in 1856.
Source: Old Hong Kong by Colonial Vol 1