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Flagstaff House, Hong Kong - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 22°16′42.60″N 114°9′45.0″E / 22.2785000°N 114.162500°E

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Flagstaff House
旗桿屋
Flagstaff house

General information
Architectural style	Greek revival style
Location	Central
Address	10 Cotton Tree Drive
Country	Hong Kong
Current tenants	Museum of Tea Ware
Completed	1846
Owner	Hong Kong Government
Website
hk.art.museum/tea-ware

Declared Monument of Hong Kong
Designated	14 September 1989
Reference no.	36

Flagstaff House

Traditional Chinese

旗桿屋

Simplified Chinese

旗杆屋

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qígānwū
Wade–Giles	Ch'i² kan¹ wu¹
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Kèih gōn ūk
Jyutping	Kei4 gon1 uk1
IPA	[kʰȅi kɔ́ːn ʔʊ́k]

Museum of Tea Ware

Traditional Chinese

茶具文物館

Simplified Chinese

茶具文物馆

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chájù Wénwùguǎn
Wade–Giles	Ch'a² chü⁴ wen² wu⁴ kuan³
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Chàh geuih màhn maht gún
Jyutping	Caa4 geoi6 man4 mat6 gwun2
IPA	[tsʰȁː kɵ̀y mɐ̏n mɐ̀t kʷǔːn]

Flagstaff House, built in 1846, is the oldest example of Western-style architecture remaining in Hong Kong.^[1] It is located at 10 Cotton Tree Drive, Central – within the Hong Kong Park.^[2]

It has been a longtime residence of the Commander of the British forces in Hong Kong during colonial times. Today Flagstaff House houses the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware.

History

Flagstaff House had been named as Headquarter House until 1932.^[3] The site chosen was a small bluff above the barracks and above Queen's Road, then at the waterfront.

The building was designed in Greek revival style. Historians suspect it was designed either by Murdoch Bruce, a Scotsman who was inspector of buildings, or by Lieutenant Bernard Collinson of the Royal Engineers.^[3] Construction was completed in 1846,^[2] and the first occupant was Major-General George Charles D'Aguilar, General Officer Commanding from 1844 to 1846, who also held the post of Lieutenant Governor.^[3]

The west and east wings were shelled during the Japanese invasion in the Second World War; it also suffered bomb damage. The Japanese repaired it and the Commandant took the building as his residence during the occupation.^[3]

After the war, Flagstaff House was again the Commander's residence until 1978,^[1] when the Commander moved to a purpose built house on Barker Road. It was handed over by the military to the civilian Hong Kong Government as part of the recovery of Victoria Barracks. The Government put it under the responsibility of the Urban Council in 1981.^[3]

The building was declared a monument in 1989.^[4] It was restored as far as possible to its original mid-19th-century appearance, structurally reinforced, and the interior was to be modified so that it could be used as a museum.^[3]

Museum of Tea Ware

In 1984, it was converted into the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, a branch museum of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The museum specialises in the collection, study and display of teaware, including many samples of the Yixing teapot, from the Jiangsu of China, as well as the world's oldest known extant teapot.

A new wing, the K.S. Lo Gallery, was built and opened in 1995.^[5] It is named after local collector (and Vitasoy founder Dr. Kwee Seong Lo), who made a donation to the city in the 1970s. This donation now constitutes the core of the museum's collection. The new gallery contains a collection of ceramics and Chinese seals.

References

^ ^a ^b Antiquities and Monuments Office: Declared Monuments in Hong Kong: Flagstaff House Archived 27 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b "Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware". Hong Kong Tourism Board. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Eric Cavaliero, Proud house on a hill Archived 8 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Standard, 16 January 1997
^ "Annex I Listing of Declared Monuments". Environmental Protection Department. Government of Hong Kong. 1 January 1999. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
^ K.S. Lo Collection of Tea Ware and Seals

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