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Beaconsfield House

Beaconsfield House, Government building in Central district, Hong Kong.

Beaconsfield House was a six-storey government office building at 4 Queen's Road Central, behind the HSBC Main Building. Built in a utilitarian 1960s style, it had a post office and a large public toilet dominating the ground-floor façade, three service messes above, and a small bridge from the fourth floor to Battery Path. A single lift served the building from Queen's Road.

The site was levelled in 1841 by Alexander Johnstone for a house, and from 1878 held Emanuel Belilios's Beaconsfield Arcade, sold to the government in 1898. The six-storey Beaconsfield House replaced it in 1963. The Information Services Department moved in that June, and the building was demolished in 1995 for the Cheung Kong Center.

The building's name came from Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield; the earlier arcade on the site was built in 1878 by Emanuel R. Belilios. The three service messes on the lower floors served cheap meals and were open to the public. The Information Services Department occupied the top two floors with 100 staff.

The building stood at 4 Queen's Road Central, behind the HSBC Main Building. A single lift connected the ground floor to the upper storeys, and a small bridge on the fourth floor led to Battery Path, level with the French Mission Building. The site was cleared in 1995 and is now occupied by the Cheung Kong Center.

The building housed multiple government departments, military facilities, and postal services all within the same structure. Its replacement by a major commercial complex represented a pivotal shift in Central's transformation into a modern financial hub.

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June 8, 1963
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