Headquarters House

Headquarters House (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Mon.–Fri., free admission) is home of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, which oversees the country's heritage sites; it dates from 1755 and is a good example of Georgian architecture. Merchant Thomas Hibbert built the house in a contest to see who could construct the most ornate edifice with which to impress a local girl. There's a nice gallery on the ground floor with antiquities. It is also called Hibbert House. The Jamaican Parliament was housed at Headquarters House until it outgrew the small confines of the main chamber.