Flagstaff House stands at 10 Cotton Tree Drive in Central, Hong Kong, within Hong Kong Park. It was completed in 1846 in the Greek Revival style and is the oldest surviving colonial architecture in Hong Kong. The architect is unconfirmed, though historians suspect either Murdoch Bruce or Lieutenant Bernard Collinson. Its first occupant was Major-General George Charles D'Aguilar. It was called Headquarter House until 1932.
The house's west and east wings were shelled in the Japanese invasion. It served as the commander's residence until 1978. It was declared a monument in 1989 and restored as far as possible to its mid-nineteenth-century appearance.
Since 1984 it has been the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, a branch of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The K.S. Lo Gallery wing opened in 1995 and holds ceramics and Chinese seals.
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