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Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum. It is located in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses, it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored. The museum showcases the slave history of the ...
Goldeneye (estate) Coordinates: 18°24′39″N 76°56′37″W. Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming 's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica. He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
Three-decker (house) A three-decker, triple-decker triplex or stacked triplex, [1] in the United States, is a three-story (triplex) apartment building. These buildings are typically of light-framed, wood construction, where each floor usually consists of a single apartment, and frequently, originally, extended families lived in two, or all ...
Jamaican Georgian architecture. Jamaican Georgian architecture is an architectural style that was popular in Jamaica between c. 1750 and c. 1850. [1] It married the elegance of Georgian styling with functional features designed to weather Jamaica's tropical climate. [2] It was used at all levels in society, from the most important public ...
Devon House. Coordinates: 18°00′53″N 76°47′24″W. Devon House, St. Andrew. Devon House, built in 1881, is the former residence of George Stiebel (1820–1896), [1][2] Jamaica's first millionaire of colour, in St. Andrew. [3] He gained his wealth in Venezuela and returned to Jamaica. He was appointed as the Custos, a high civic post, of ...
Category: Houses in Jamaica. 1 language. ... This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. G. Great Houses in Jamaica (10 P) H.
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Hibbert House, also known as Headquarters House, is the head office of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. It is located at 79 Duke Street in Kingston, Jamaica. It was built in 1755 by Thomas Hibbert, a wealthy English merchant, to serve as his residence. Hibbert migrated to Kingston in 1734, at a time when Jamaica was becoming the wealthiest ...