This building, Knowsley, occupies the entire block from Queen's Park West to Albion Street, between Chancery Lane and Dundonald Street. It was designed and constructed in 1904 by Taylor Gillies, at a cost of $100,000 for William Gordon Gordon. Gordon resided at Knowsley for many years. It has been recorded that the building might have been so named after the residence of Gordon's friend in Cheshire, Lord Derby.
The building is predominantly Italian and German in architecture, and has been referred to as a "sandwich of blue stone and brick".
Olga Mavrogordato describes the building as:
"... composed of imported bricks and hand-hewn local limestone. The marble on the gallery which surrounds the ground floor was imported from Italy, and the wood for the beautiful staircase of purple heart came from Guyana.
"The ceilings on the ground floor are of plaster of Paris and the gesso work is that of an Italian craftsman who did the work on the ceiling in the Council Chamber in the Red House, and in the Stollmeyer's house.
The building also has a dovecote at the back. The Trinidad Government bought Knowsley for $250,000 in 1956.
Today, it houses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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