Architectural, Cultural sights in Montego Bay
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Town House
The Town House, with a handsome redbrick frontage buried under a cascade of bougainvillea and laburnum, dates from 1765, when it was the home of a wealthy merchant. It has since served as a church manse and later as a townhouse for the mistress of the Earl of Hereford, Governor of Jamaica. In the years that followed it was used as a hotel, warehouse, Masonic lodge, lawyer’s office and synagogue. Its current incarnation is a clothes store.
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Barnett Estate
The sea of sugarcane south of Montego Bay is part of the Barnett Estate, a plantation owned and operated since 1755 by the Kerr-Jarretts, one of Jamaica’s preeminent families; their holdings once included most of the Montego Bay area. Today the family (now in its 11th generation) holds the land in trust for the government and manages it accordingly.
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Bellfield Great House
The Bellfield Great House, built in 1735, has been restored and is now a showcase of 18th-century colonial living. The former plantation manager’s house doubles as a museum charting the development of the area since the day that Colonel Nicholas Jarrett arrived with Cromwell’s invasion army in 1655.
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National Housing Trust
At the corner of King St and Church St is a redbrick Georgian building harboring the National Housing Trust. Equally impressive is the three-story Georgian building at 25 Church St - headquarters of Cable & Wireless Jamaica.
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