Excelsior Terrace
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Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Sat, 2010-02-20 13:37
Can anyone tell me where on Robinson Rd this building was located?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38679411@N07/3755214016/in/pool-oldhongkong
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Re: Excelsior Terrace
Probably today's Excelsior Court (83 Robinson Road) as one of the photos in the photostream shows the tower of the Ohel Leah Synagogue.
It's currently Excelsior
It's currently Excelsior Court at 87 Robinson Road. My school bus passed by it everyday til it was demolished around 1989-1990.
Was Excelsior Terrace a street as well?
There are terrace steps between Robinson Mansion (77 Robinson Road) and Robinson Crest (71-73 Robinson Road). Might these steps be originally be the street Excelsior Terrace? The Hong Kong Post still lists Excelsior Terrace as a street that is covered by one of the post offices. Furthermore, the Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association had listed Dr. Sung Sheung Hei's address as "75C Robinson Road" (suggesting that his residence would have been somewhere between 73 and 77 Robinson Road, perhaps set back from Robinson Road in a terraced street) in some issues of the bulletin, and "93 Excelsior Terrace, Robinson Road" in other issues of the Bulletin. I know that in the past, some buildings on Terraces had addresses that included both the name of the Terrace as well as the main street that the Terrace was associated with. Furthermore, elsewhere in Gwulo, I have read that Sir Shouson Chow also had a home on Excelsior Terrace; this suggests that Excelsior Terrace was a street with individual dwellings instead of just an apartment complex. It would have been highly unlikely for someone of Sir Shouson Chow's prominence to live in an apartment in those days. It is also definitely possible that a building co-opted the name "Excelsior Terrace" as the neighborhood became more developed over time.
Excelsior Terrace discussion
Excelsior Terrace discussion continues over here http://gwulo.com/node/5723 . I've answered your question there.