Government House, Natal

Government House, Natal

The Old Government House, located in Pietermaritzburg, was the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, South Africa, Benjamin Pine, who arrived in Natal in 1851. The building was completed in the late 1860s and the Natal Government later bought it from Pine and established it as Government House.

"Driving up to Government House one is struck by its very homely English appearance: in its outward form there has been not striving after giving it the resemblance of a palace: it is after a cottage type, and reminds me of many a vicarage at home: … (The South African diaries of Sir Garnet Wolseley; 1875, first published 1971)

ee also

*Government Houses of South Africa
*Government Houses of the British Empire


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