Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Date closed / demolished
Recently we've seen a few mentions of this hotel around late 1930's/early 1940's.
Interesting to see the building on the site today is named "Ocean View Court" in English, but may well be using the same Chinese name as the old hotel.
Previous place(s) at this location
Later place(s) at this location
Photos that show this Place
1933
1933
1934
Comments
Harbour view Hotel
Back in the early fifties we stayed in the Arlington Hotel on Mody Rd. and right next door to the Harbour View, which was on the corner of Mody and Chatham Rds. There was also a large sort of house/mansion (which could have been the one shown in an old photo of Signal Hill) across the road, which may have been called Lytton House.
Re: Harbour View Hotel
This photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53652797@N06/5192152386/
I think may show the location of the Harbour View Hotel. Probably taken from the Chatham Road junction.
Re: Harbour Hotel
You can also see the area in this aerial photo from the 1930s:
Lyton House
Richard, we've got a Lyton House on Mody Road. Not sure if it's the building you're thinking of?
Harbour View Hotel
Another good view of the area in this photo from Peter Ball's collection.
Harbour View Hotel
See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35328107@N08/4543630603/
Lyeemoon Building / Harbour View Hotel / Arlington Hotel
I'm trying to work out the relationships (if any) between these buildings - all help gratefully received.
Here's what we know so far:
This 1947 map shows the area around Mody Road & Chatham Road. I've marked two buildings A & B.
Building B is this Place. The side facing Chatham Road was curved, as shown in this photo. At some point it housed the Harbour View Hotel. The building itself was called variously Lyeemoon / Lyemun / Lei U Mun Building(s).
Building A was next door. You can see it in this photo. A couple of readers remember it as the Arlington Hotel.
Were buildings A & B collectively known as Lyeemoon Buildings?
Their design looks very similar. And the current building on the site (Ocean View Court, completed 1958) occupies the site of both buildings A & B, suggesting they were re-developed together.
Regards, David
LYEEMOON BUILDING/ ARLINGTON
There appears to be an alley separating the two buildings and I vaguely remember this, as one of our rooms looked onto this alley. In the photo which was taken from the balcony, of the buildings across the road, one of the oriole windows can be seen alongside the balcony.
Arlington Hotel and the Harbour View
Correction on spelling. Not Oriole, but Oriel or bay windows which are seen on both buildings.
Re: Lyemun Buildings
Hong Kong Daily Press 4 December 1930
Named Lyemun Flats, one of the blocks faced Lyemun whilst the other faced Signal Hill.
Re: Lyemun Buildings
Good find - does it mention if they were newly completed buildings? If not there's a chance the article is referring to the Lyeemoon Villas, which had a similar orientation.
Regards, David
Re: Lyemun Buildings
The Lyemun Flats were new modern buildings ready for occupation in November 1930. Each block was 4 storeys high with 16 flats and owned by the Spanish Dominican Procuration. The flats came along with built-in wardrobes and Kelvinators!
Who can resist a
Who can resist a Kelvinator?!
Thanks for the extra information. So it looks as though these were built on the site of the older Lyeemoon Villas as two blocks of flats, then later some or all of the flats were used as hotels.
I've set the completion date per your newspaper article, and estimated the demolition date to 1956, based on the completion of the next building on the site.
Regards, David