Résidence du gouverneur, Historical monument in Dzaoudzi, Mayotte.

Résidence du gouverneur is a two-storey building on Dzaoudzi rock, with a pale grey and white facade under a flat roof with a thin dark cornice. The upper floor repeats bays of white louvred shutters and glazing, and the ground floor has a central recessed section with tall shuttered doors reached by a wide grey concrete staircase with white metal handrails. A tall thin pole rises through the centre of the facade.

The structure was built between 1891 and 1892 from a prefabricated kit shipped from mainland France. It replaced the former palace of Sultan Andriantsoly that previously occupied the same site.

The residence stands on the site of Sultan Andriantsoly's pangahari, destroyed in 1845; the sultan's name remains attached to the spot on the Dzaoudzi rock. The grounds keep three cannons, the oldest dated 1813, and six lampposts, listed with the house as monuments historiques in 2012. The département plans to make the house the central building of the Musée de Mayotte (MuMA).

The building stands on the Dzaoudzi rock, reached by the road along the islet; the wide grey concrete stair with white metal handrails leads up to the recessed shuttered doors of the ground floor. The two longères of 1851 and 1857, the three cannons and six lampposts stand on the grounds. The house was badly damaged by cyclone Chido in December 2024, so check access before going.

The building was assembled between 1891 and 1892 from a kit made by the Moisant workshops, a metal-frame firm competing with Eiffel's. In 2023 it was chosen for the Loto du patrimoine list of emblematic endangered sites, and in December 2024 cyclone Chido caused major damage to it.