Terra Nova Hotel, 17 Waterloo Road, Half-Way Tree, Kingston.

• This Mansion was built in 1924 on 10 acres of land by the Hon. Horace Victor Myers, M.B.E., J.P. (1876-1944), a wealthy Jewish Merchant in Kingston, who was the Heir to the Myers Rum fortune. He was the Chairman and Managing Director of Fred L. Myers & Son Ltd. from 1919 to 1940. He built the Mansion for his wife, Mrs. Horace Victor Myers (1874-1925) nee May da Costa, "one of the leading Society Hostesses in Jamaica," so that she could entertain High Society in lavish style. She died less than a year after the Mansion was built.
• In the Early 1930s the Hon. Horace Victor Myers sold Terra Nova to Percival "Percy" Henriques, a wealthy Jewish Merchant and Planter.
• In 1936 he in turn gave it to his daughter, Blanche Lindo (1912-2017), as a Wedding Present on her marriage to Major Joseph O'Malley Blackwell, a British Officer in the Irish Guards. He was a member of the Anglo-Irish Aristocracy and one of the heirs to the firm of Crosse & Blackwell. They were the parents of Chris Blackwell, the Music Producer, who founded Island Records.
• In 1959 the mansion was sold by the Blackwell family and opened as the Terra Nova Hotel.
• In the mid-1960s they did extensive remodelling and added a new wing.
• Starting in 1962 the maitre d' was Roc Pavesi, and he worked there on and off for the next 18 years.
• After Roc Pavesi left in 1980 the great days were gone.
• In 1982, the hotel which was owned by West Indies Caribbean Development was sold to Memphis Catering. Within two days they sold the real estate to National Commercial Bank for an estimated $2 million in profit.
• In 2001 it underwent a major refurbishing.
• This is now the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel.