Hong Kong Hotel
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| Hong Kong Hotel 香港大酒店 |
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 The Hong Kong Hotel on the Central Praya (c.1900); Jardine Matheson opposite |
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| Opening date | 1866 |
| Closing date | 1926 |
| Owner | The Hongkong Hotel Company |
| No. of floors | 6 |
Hong Kong Hotel was the Colony's first luxury hotel in Hong Kong. It was opened on the waterfront of Victoria Harbour, Central, Hong Kong in 1866.
[edit] The hotel
The building occupied an entire block, with entrances on Pedder Street, Queen's Road and Praya Central. Hong Kong's first deluxe hotel modelled after sumptuous London hotels, The Hongkong Hotel, stood roughly on the site of the present Central building[1], from 1866. Competing in all respects with the owners of The Star Ferry Company, who owned the Peak Hotel, the management provided a special launch to meet arriving passengers on incoming P&O mail steamers and ferry them direct to the hotel's pier.
Previous to the hotel, the land belonged to Dent & Co., where the west wing of its "princely" headquarters was located[2]. In 1886, the hotel had added a north wing on the site.
The hotel was later rebuilt into a 6-storey structure, completed in 1893[3]; the hotel burned down on New Year's Day, 1926.
The site was acquired by Hong Kong Land in 1928, and Gloucester Tower was constructed in 1932. It was redeveloped into The Landmark in 1979[4].
[edit] References
- ^ The Hongkong Hotel Company later became the The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, owner of The Peninsula Hotels chain.
- ^ Moss, Peter (2002). Hong Kong - Another City Another Age. Hong Kong: FormAsia Books Limited, 63. ISBN 962-7283-46-0.
- ^ Feature: Buildings for Pedder Street since colonialisation，Sing Pao，October 29, 2005 (Chinese)
- ^ Trevor Bedford, Hong Kong Land, reported in "Meeting heritage challenge", South China Morning Post, 30-Nov-1978
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