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Royal Buildings North / Cecil Hotel [1904-1954]

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Submitted by Herostratus on Mon, 2016-07-18 18:30
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
c.1904-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1954-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Royal/ Chung Tin buildings

 

Inland Lot 1724, secured July 1900

 

Architect was Leigh & Orange

 

Phase 1 (King Edward Hotel end) completed in 1902, leased to Dhunjeebhoy Dorabjee, severely damaged by fire in March 1929

Rebuilt as office block which opened in 1931 (original façade kept), rebuilt portion renamed Chung Tin Building

 

Phase 2 completed in 1904, lower five floors leased to Lane Crawford until 1924

After 1924 building was leased as Hotel Savoy which became Hotel Cecil

 

Buildings sold to Lau Kwai Cheuk after construction in 1904 but possession regained by HK land on his death in 1936 due to unpaid HKD500,000 mortgage

 

Demolished in 1954 to build Alexandra House

 

Source: HK Land at 125

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Hongkong Land
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Submitted by annelisec on Mon, 2016-09-12 05:57.

Can we add Lane Crawford to the title,please?

Submitted by David on Tue, 2016-09-13 14:18.

For details and photos of the north section (King Edward Hotel / Chung Tin Building), see: http://gwulo.com/node/3776