Shanghai Club Building
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The three-storey neo-classical Shanghai Club Building in Shanghai was built in 1910 along The Bund. It later became the Dongfeng Hotel, and even suffered the indignity of housing a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant from 1990 to 1996. It is now empty.
[edit] History
The Club was a British men's club and was the most exclusive club in Shanghai during the heydays of the 1920s and 1930s. The membership fee was $125 and monthly dues were $9.
The original Shanghai Club was a three-storey red-brick building constructed in 1863. United States President Ulysses S. Grant was hosted there when he visited Shanghai in 1879.
The original Club was torn down and rebuilt in 1910 with reinforced concrete in a neo-classical design. The large first floor dining room had black and white marble flooring, while the entrance staircase used imported white Sicilian marble.
The second-floor was famous for the "Long Bar." This was an unpolished mahogony, L-shaped bar that measured 110.7 feet by 39 feet. On one side of the bar was a smoking room and library, while on the other side was a billiards room.
There were also forty guest rooms on the second and third floors.
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