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Thomas Kincaid, the first owner of Antonio Hall, was my great great granduncle. His brother Andrew, with whom he was in business (Kincaids GIC), is my great great grandfather. Andrew has other descendants, living in Christchurch. It is distressing to see how neglect got to the property before the earthquake did. Who are the current owners? The Liusettis? How long has it been unoccupied?
Best wishes. Many thanks for creating this place where people can talk.
Andrew Kincaid, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Hi Guys, My Nana is Veronica Luisetti, previous owner of this property. Sadly Nana passed away in December 2011. However in January 2011 the (then) current 'tennant''Sam Yau allowed us to walk through the property. I have a lot of photos from Nana's time at the property as well as from January 2011 and some from straight after the Feb 2011 Earthquake.

I spent a lot of time November/December 2010 researching the property and have made contact with a few lads who attended school when the building was used as the Seminary. All have very fond memories of Antonio House and some pretty wicked stories, as I do, too. I spent a lot of time here as a child and my Mother also worked here for a time as well.

Yes that is correct. Nana lost a son back in January 1975, car addcident near the old styx mill over bridge, in Belfast (I think?). His name was Anthony and he was 19 at the time. The property was Campion Hall when Nana purchased it and she re named it Antonio Hall, later re naming it Antonio House. To which it was known as up until she sold the property in the mid 90's. - Happy to answer any questions anyone may have. 🙂

Andrew, do you or did you live in Sydney or Melbourne by any chance? Andrew Kincaid is my great great grandfather as well 🙂 His son Leatham was my grandmother's father...

With the current owners in Taiwan do you know if they have been paid out EQC funds and if they have what they have done with them? It is heartbreaking driving past this property to work everyday seeing it deteriorate!