article_snippet: Built in the 16th century as a private home, the building has since been used as a Victorian boarding school, a young men's hostel, a restaurant and a museum.
article_snippet: The 16th century Eastgate House was built for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of Medway .
article_snippet: The 16th century Eastgate House was built in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of MedwayMedway .
article_snippet: Five generations of the Buck family were associated with The 16th century Eastgate House until 1687 where The 16th century Eastgate House passed into the hands of the Parkers, and later the Bartholomews.
article_snippet: In 1761 The 16th century Eastgate House was held by Annabel Darwin, but possibly let to tenants.
article_snippet: The 16th century Eastgate House also features as The Westgate Seminary for Young Ladies in The Pickwick Papers.
article_snippet: The 16th century Eastgate House once again became a private dwelling in the 1870s, being the home of Samuel Shaw, a wholesale coal merchant.
article_snippet: The 16th century Eastgate House transition to a young men's hostel in 1890 appears to have been fairly brief as Its transition to a young men's hostel in 1890 had become a temperance restaurant by 1897 when Rochester City Council resolved to turn Its transition to a young men's hostel in 1890 into a municipal library and museum in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.