The Homestead [1888-1921] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

The Homestead [1888-1921]

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Submitted by annelisec on Wed, 2010-12-22 20:02
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
1888-01-01
Date Place demolished: 
1921-01-01

地段編號     LOT NO.:     RURAL BUILDING LOT NO. 76   

年期     LEASE TERM:     75 YEARS    

開始日期     COMMENCEMENT OF LEASE TERM:     06/03/1876    

每年地稅     RENT PER ANNUM:     $56.00    

Original Leasholder: GRANVILLE SHARP   

REMARKS:         GOVERNMENT LEASE OF RBL 76              

EDMUND HAMILTON SHARP, SOTHEBY GODFREY BIRD     EXECUTOR
22/12/1899         07/10/1902         
REMARKS:         PROBATE

EDMUND HAMILTON SHARP, JAMES BUCHANAN     TRUSTEEs

28/11/1902         10/01/1903          

EDMUND HAMILTON SHARP     TRUSTEE     26/11/1906         26/11/1906         - SIR CATCHICK PAUL CHATER   TRUSTEE    

SIR CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, TRUSTEE     19/05/1909         19/05/1909         -  ERNEST HAMILTON SHARP     TRUSTEE     -     備註     REMARKS:        

ASSIGNMENT            
FRANCIS BULMER LYON BOWLEY     25/11/1912              -          備註    

ASSIGNMENT             
HO TUNG     09/12/1912        

ASSIGNMENT             
THE KING     30/03/1920        

 


Matilda Lincolne Sharp, was resident of Hong Kong from 1858 to 1893.

Some years after Sir Robert Ho Tung's family moved to the Peak, he bought a large tract of land there, the "Homestead" site.  He exchanged it for the Central Fire Station on Wellington and Queen's Road Central

Rented to the Peak Club until 1907.

1917 - Churchill, Mrs. AF, The Homestead, 43, The Peak

 

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Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2013-10-17 16:27.

I've set the demolition date to 1921. It may be earlier, but this site was definitely clear by 1921, in preparation for the next buildings that would stand here. From the 1921 PWD Annual report:

88. Offices' Quarters: –

Homestead Site Houses. – This work was placed under the charge of Messrs Little, Adams & Wood. A contract with Messrs Kien On & Co for $477,039.68 was signed on the 31st August for the erection of a block of 6 flats and 4 detached houses. The work was shortly afterwards commenced and by the end of the year a large amount of site preparation had been done and the foundations of the block of flats had been laid.