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1905
Photograph reproduced from January 1906 edition of "The Far Eastern Review" showing the recently completed new residence of Sir Paul Chater. This building subsequently became known as "Marble Hall" on account of its large and elaborate marble entrance hall. Later the building was named "Admiralty House" when the Royal Nnavy took it over as the residence of the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron. <Read more ...>
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1905
Photograph reproduced from January 1906 edition of "The Far Eastern Review" showing the Ground Floor Plane of the recently completed new residence of Sir Paul Chater. This building subsequently became known as "Marble Hall" on account of its large and elaborate marble entrance hall. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1905
Photograph reproduced from January 1906 edition of "The Far Eastern Review" showing a distant view ( looking West) of the recently completed new residence of Sir Paul Chater. This building subsequently became known as "Marble Hall" on account of its large and elaborate marble entrance hall. <Read more ...>
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1905
Scan of Architech's drawing reproduced in "The Far Eastern Review" in July 1905 when the building was under construction. This drawing shows details of the main entrance and a gable. <Read more ...>
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1905
Scan of Architech's drawing reproduced in "The Far Eastern Review" in July 1905 when the building was under construction . These are plans of the intended layout of the Ground and 1st Floors. <Read more ...>
Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.
In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>
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Text: The first building on the left is Jardine House (Jardine, Matheson & Co) - a building which was demolished in 1907. Painted advertisements: SMOKE SHEE[...] CIGARETTES / PUREST AND BEST; TRY HEINZ APPLE BUTTER; HEINZ 57 GOOD THINGS; THE MUTUAL STORES.
Behind Jardine House should be the P&O Building (3rd gen) <Read more ...>
