This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica. Great houses, or plantation houses, were built at a time when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest English colony in the West Indies. Sugar cane was harvested by enslaved peoples. British contemporary architecture was adapted to the tropics with features such as wide wrap-around verandas, jalousies, and sash windows to accommodate the Caribbean climate. * Albion, Saint Thomas. * Edinburgh Castle * Halse Hall * * * Green Park * Potosi * Roaring River * Rose Hall, Montego Bay. * Roxbro Castle * Temple Hall *
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica. Great houses, or plantation houses, were built at a time when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest English colony in the West Indies. Sugar cane was harvested by enslaved peoples. British contemporary architecture was adapted to the tropics with features such as wide wrap-around verandas, jalousies, and sash windows to accommodate the Caribbean climate. * Albion, Saint Thomas. * Edinburgh Castle * Halse Hall * * * Green Park * Potosi * Roaring River * Rose Hall, Montego Bay. * Roxbro Castle * Temple Hall * (en)
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica. Great houses, or plantation houses, were built at a time when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest English colony in the West Indies. Sugar cane was harvested by enslaved peoples. British contemporary architecture was adapted to the tropics with features such as wide wrap-around verandas, jalousies, and sash windows to accommodate the Caribbean climate. * Albion, Saint Thomas. * Edinburgh Castle * Halse Hall * * * Green Park * Potosi * Roaring River * Rose Hall, Montego Bay. * Roxbro Castle * Temple Hall * (en)
