THE RESIDENCY - Government House
- 1871 First Residency completed
- 1874 Second storey added
- 1877 2nd story demolished by white ants
- 1878 Architect John George Knight designed 2nd Residency
- 1879 ‘house of seven gables’, completed in porcellanite & Cypress pine
- 1897 (7 January) cyclone damage to roof, verandah and flagstaff
- 1912 Dr John Anderson Gilruth changed name to Government House