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Reviews of Kenwyn House

• Евгений Голубев

  5

  Reviewed: 2023-07-25

• Victor Wang

  5

  Reviewed: 2023-03-20

  Visited when they were hosting the National Monument Art Gallery and were showcasing a bunch of local artists with a wide variety of pieces and different mediums. Some extremely unique pieces that I have not seen anywhere else with detailed biographies of artists explaining their motivation. Really loved the experience here and well worth spending an hour.

• Ségo Dssy

  3

  Reviewed: 2023-03-06

  To do if you are in the area, but nothing exceptional

• Roshan Ismail

  5

  Reviewed: 2019-11-30

  Wonderful to place to check architecture in Seychelles

• Галина Волкова

  5

  Reviewed: 2019-06-09

  Kenwyn House is another architectural landmark of the capital of Victoria, which emphasizes the colonial style and elegant beauty of the buildings. It was built in the 1850s and served as the residential home of Dr. Henry Brookes (1831-1920), who is remembered by the Seychellois for his heroic deeds: saving lives 42-year-old Italian priest, Father Jeremy, from under the rubble of dirt and debris that came down from Mount Three brother, a mudslide, and preventing the spread of smallpox brought by one of the passengers from East Africa. In 1880, the Eastern Telegraph Company, laying a cable connection between the Seychelles and Zanzibar, bought the house from a doctor and made it a residence for engineers and managers. name-Kenywn, the house received the name of a village in Cornwall, in the South-West of England, from where it was supplied telegraph submarine cables. Due to weather conditions, a humid climate and termites, by the end of the 1990s the house began to collapse. In 2004, a South African company began restoring the building. All that remained of the original material were the ceiling beams, rafters, pillars, entrance doors and floorboards (they were made of casuarina wood, resistant to termite destruction). As a result, the house turned out to be a complete copy formerly. Currently, there is a jewelry store Diamond SA, which displays collections of diamonds and tanzanites and an art gallery where you can see the Coco-Demer collection, sculptures and paintings by local artists. There is a fountain in the small garden. But the most amazing beauty is definitely the house itself!