ICHS History
| ICHS History THE CONSTANT SPRING HOTEL Also built in preparation for the 1891 Exhibition when over 300,000 visitors were expected on the island, this hotel was located at the end of an electric tram car line about six miles from the city of Kingston. It is credited with being the first building to have electricity and indoor plumbing. The Constant Spring Post Office was set up to facilitate hotel guests. By the mid-1890s it too had been taken over by the government. Situated on 165 acres, the Constant Spring Hotel had 100 rooms and was known as the Golfer's Hotel because of its 9-hole course which was extended to 18-holes by the 1930s. It offered special dining and entertainment options for children, lavish bedrooms, sitting rooms, dining rooms and parlours, a French chef and hairdressing, as well as a gazebo and a magnificent swimming bath. Yet the hotel rarely turned a profit and in the 1940s it was sold to the Franciscan sisters who were looking for a new home for their convent and school having lost their original location on Duke St in 1937 to fire. In 1941 Immaculate Conception School opened with 99 students and 16 boarders, mostly daughters of wealthy Jamaican, Cuban, Haitian and Canadian Catholic families |