Headquarters or Hibbert House , Kingston, Jamaica. This house was likely built in 1755 by Thomas Hibbert, a wealthy merchant, on a desirable, elevated lot in Kingston. In the nineteenth century, the War Office of the West Indies Regiment purchased the house for the Regiment’s headquarters and the General’s residence; this is the source of its now commonly used name, Headquarters House. When the Jamaican government relocated from Spanish Town to Kingston in 1872, the Headquarters House became...
