Manor House Hotel → Great House still there. Annexe torn down and replaced with apartment buildings
Manor House Hotel, Constant Spring.
- The original manor house was built in 1893, where the Sawyers family and later Sir John Pringle lived.
- The first newspaper advertisement for a hotel is 1909. Elevation 540 feet (600 feet claimed). Suites of bedrooms with private bath, electric light, tennis, golf and croquet.
- In the early 1920s, the Annexe of the Hotel was built.
- In December 1925, it was announced that The Manor House Hotel was to be reopened under new management at a later date. (Captain and Mrs. Frank Rutty took over.)
- A January 1926 advertisement notes commanding view of Kingston Harbor, and an upcoming dinner dance with orchestra. The dance started monthly, but quickly became fortnightly.
- In August 1927, the dances became weekly. In January 1928 the hotel resumed advertising the rooms. Claimed elevation is now 650 feet.
- By 1933 the ads for the dances ended, but the ads for the rooms continued. The ads note that it is 20 degrees cooler than Kingston at night. (It is six or so miles from Kingston.) Majority of rooms with private baths.
- In December 1933, Thunderstorm Orchestra -- the house band for all those dinner dances -- held an anniversary ball.
- Starting May 1, 1934, the hotel closed for two months for renovation.
- On April 30, 1938, the hotel closed for extensions and renovations until further notice. They reopened on July 17th.
- In August 1939, The Devil's Daughter was partially filmed there, using the Great House on the hotel grounds.
- In the late 1950s it was a very popular event venue.
- In 1963, after 18 months of secret negotiations, the 73-bedroom hotel was sold to a Jamaican financial syndicate headed by Maurice Facey. The plan is to develop 30 acres of the hotel's spacious grounds as luxury housing estates with apartment buildings and shopping center. The hotel remained open.
- In April 1965, all furniture, equipment and supplies were sold at auction. This was from the Annexe. Ads for the hotel continued, but for only 30 guests in double rooms.
- The last known ad for the hotel was 1971.
- The site is now part of the development of Manor Park. The Manor House is still there, and was converted to luxury flats. The Annexe was pulled down and replaced by Manor Park Apartments, two blocks of multi-story apartment buildings, which are to the east of the Manor House. All the other hotel cottages were torn down.
