Government House is the office and official residence of the Administrator of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia.

Built between 1870 and 1871, with later renovations between 1878 and 1879, the building is set on 13,000 square metres of hillside gardens in the centre of the Darwin business district, on The Esplanade.

The house is an example of a mid-Victorian Gothic villa, here adapted for the local climate by the addition of numerous shaded verandahs and porches.

It has endured cyclones, earthquakes, enemy bombing raids, infestations of white ants and rowdy public demonstrations to remain one of the most spectacular and attractive buildings in Darwin.

Of its construction early resident Harriet Douglas Daly said:[1] Building this house was a matter of great difficulty...In fact the word seems to be the one most frequently associated with every...enterprise connected with the Northern Territory...Robinson Crusoe had nothing like the difficulties in obtaining building material that we had...we literally had to begin at the beginning of everything...from the very laying of the foundationstone...nothing but difficulties and makeshifts attended the workOn 17 December 1918, Government House became the focal point of political turmoil and union unrest against John Gilruth's administration.