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Devon House Heritage Site |
| HISTORY
Devon House is the realization of the dream of George Stiebel a son of a housekeeper and a Jewish Merchant. Stiebel made his fortune from investments in gold mines in Venezuela. He purchased 99 properties in Jamaica including 53 acres of land from the St. Andrew Parish on which he built Devon House in 1881.
Devon House is furnished with a collection of Jamaican, Caribbean, English and French antiques and Jamaican reproductions, that evoke a Jamaican Great House from the years 1860-1870.
The architectural style of Devon House has been described as Jamaican-Georgian displaying very formal and symmetrical lines. Devon House was named a National Monument by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) in September 1990.
NEWS
One Way System streamlines traffic flow at Devon House
Devon House has introduced a one way system to control the flow of traffic on the property as patronage increases at the 123- year old heritage site. Patrons now access the property via Waterloo Road and exit by Kingsway Avenue.
Devon House joins efforts to advance national branding strategies
Since its inception in 2002 Devon House Development Company has been working to safeguard the products and services that make up the Devon House brand, including the property’s very distinct mark the Devon House Mansion. The DHDC is now in a position to actively pursue and undertake the sale of various products bearing the Devon House logo. Branding has long been an accepted form of marketing for businesses, however this powerful advertising tool is being embraced by governments and other bodies as a key tool in branding a nation.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation in collaboration with Jamaica Intellectual Property Office hosted a Workshop on intellectual property as a tool for developing national branding strategies. Devon House Development Company, Starfish Oils and Things Jamaican participated in the two day workshop (Dec. 6 - 7, 2004).
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