Current condition
In use
- 1946-53: According to the Kennedy School website, this was used as a Government-run English-language school:
- The second building at No. 28 Kennedy Road (called the Annex) housed the first Kennedy Road School which operated from 1946 to December 1953. In 1953 it combined with the Peak School (formerly housed in what is now the Fire Station in Gough Hill Path) and moved into the new Peak School premises on the corner of Plunkett’s Road. The Log Book of the original school is still retained in the Peak School. The original Kennedy School had six classes and about 60 pupils.
Photos that show this Place
1908
1952
1957
Comments
28 Kennedy Road
It now houses the Office of Former Chief Executives. There's a video about the building at the official webpage.
https://www.admwing.gov.hk/eng/links/fceo.htm
AY
Year of construction
In the video that AY posted is reported that the building was constructed in 1905 for the Banque De L'Indochine.
The building is also listed as Grade 1 Historic Building. In the appraisal is is said:
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).
If the latter is correct, the building is still the first one built on this lot.