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Government House, the imposing structure now known as State House, was constructed in 1907 with designs by British architect Sir Herbert Baker. It was to serve as the official residence of the governor who often worked at the old provincial commissioner’s office (now a museum) next to Nyayo House before retiring to the house on the hill.
Among the governors who made ‘good use’ of Government House was Sir Edward Northey who served from 1919 to 1922. Sir Northey oversaw the change of the country’s name from British East Africa to Kenya in 1920. While he enforced a policy that made Africans compulsorily work on privately-owned white farms, he is described in the book, Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya by Christine Stephanie Nicholls as “a delightful man with no liking for protocols.”
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