24 Tucker Avenue, former residence of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Alexander Bustamante

24 Tucker Avenue is the former residence of the late Sir Alexander Bustamante. In 1940, Bustamante was held in detention at Up Park Camp for allegedly inciting workers to protest against low wages and poor working conditions. From this location, he instructed his attorneys from the legal firm Judah and Randall to build a home on the half-acre of land he had brought in 1939.

Bustamante's attorneys had the house completed within a year, and around the same time Bustamante was released from detention camp. The house was at first rented for a couple of years before it was occupied by Bustamante. The building is a contemporary-style 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom concrete house with a combined hip and gable end and timber shingle roof finish. Louvre windows are reflected throughout the design, with the exception of the pivoted sash windows of the bathrooms.

This Tucker Avenue home now has its place in Jamaica's history because a National Hero lived there and because of the eventful conferences that took place there.