Mungo Park House, Delta.

History of Mungo Park House

Mungo Park House was built in 1886. It is notable as first headquarters of the Royal Niger Company and Nigeria’s first political headquarters in 1900

Built by Royal Niger Company in 1886.

Built to commemorate the famous explorer Mungo Park, this structure was the first government house in Nigeria.

Security/Safety of Mungo Park House

This is a very safe location.

What To Bring

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Best Features

Although built primarily for palm kernel business, it became the seat of the Southern Nigeria government. It has been used over the years by various governments - Western and local. It was used as an Orphanage, Women Development Centre, Water Board and now a monument for keeping relics and articrafts of the decades past. The sophistication of this pre-fabricated storey building lies in the fact that the materials consisted mainly of well-processed wood. The materials were cut to sizes and treated in Europe, and imported just to be coupled together in the country to form the weather-beaten structure. The house was erected with stout and cooked wooden palm carefully arranged vertically and horizontally, with the staircase using nuts and bolts to join the wooden palm together.

Writer's Review

A tour of Asaba's historic and cultural gems will be greatly incomplete without a stop here to see the second half of the power-house that created what later became Nigeria.