Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Semi detached residence above Kennedy Road. Constructed in the 1920s. Replaced by Sakura court in the 1970s. Originally numbered 22 Kennedy Road until November 1927.
Lot created 4th June 1920. See here for more discussion of this place
Later place(s) at this location
Photos that show this Place
1929
1929
1920s
Comments
I.L. 2299
These two residences seem to have been mirror images of each other and had a distinctive footprint, being basically two rectangles joined only at their rear. The earliest their footprint appears on the detailed maps and aerial photos on www.hkmaps.hk is in the 1922 Survey Sheet (ref. 1922.1) and the 1924 aerial photo (ref. 1924.1). The 1924 map (ref. 1924.2) labels their site “2299”, meaning Inland Lot (IL) 2299. The public auction of IL 2299 was advertised to take place on 21 June 1920 (Government Gazette Notification S.142/1920).
The 1938 Street Index confirms that No.’s 58 & 60 occupied IL 2299 and that at some time previously they had been numbered 22 & 22A Kennedy Road.
The 1958 map (ref.1958.1) is confusing as it has Ka numbered as 60 Kennedy Road and Kb as 85 Kennedy Road. The number “85” seems to be a misprint as it does not appear elsewhere and 58 fits the numbering sequence in that section of Kennedy Road, whereas 85 does not.
Ka & Kb are still present in the 1971 Survey Sheet (ref.1971) and are probably still there in the rather blurred 1972 aerial photo (ref.1972.3). The 1973 Survey Sheet (ref.1973) and aerial photo (ref.1973.1) both show a vacant site. The 1975 Survey Sheet (ref.1975.1) labels the site “CIP May 1974”, meaning “construction in progress” on that date. The very clear 1976 aerial photo (ref.1976.3) shows a cleared site.
The 1979 Survey Sheet shows the site occupied by Sakura Court, 58 – 60 Kennedy Road, which had been completed in 1978 (HAD Database of Private Buildings).
To summarize, the two houses Kb & Ka were built on IL 2299 at sometime between mid-1920 and 1922. They were probably demolished in 1972 or 1973. The site then remained vacant for a time until construction commenced on Sakura Court which was completed in 1978.