Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Date closed / demolished
Dates from HK Land via Annelise.
Here's the approximate location of the building as it appears on a 1911 map (Plate 3-4, Mapping Hong Kong):
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Later place(s) at this location
Photos that show this Place
1904
1906
1908
Comments
Kings & York Building
Kings Building and York Building
Marine Lot 287 Lease acquired on 24th December 1901
Both Buildings completed in 1905
Palmer and Turner were the architects
Offices for
Kings Building: Jebsen & Co – started out in Kings building
York Building: Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
1955 decided on phased redevelopment
Union House phase 1 completed in August 1960 on site of Kings and York Building
Please add Lane Crawford to
Please add Lane Crawford to the title.
York Building
York Building also housed the offices of the Java China Japan Lijn, the Dutch steamer company founded in 1902 with headquaters in Hong Kong from 1903. The company ‘s first general agent was Philippus Johannes Roosegaarde Bisschop (1871-1937). Hè is on the Juror Lists 1907,1908,1909,1910.1911 and 1912, where his address is registered as York Buildings. These were his offices. Hè lived on the Peak in the house then called Tjibatoe.
The Java China Japan Lijn moved its offices to Des Voeux Street after WWII. As part of the Koninklijke Java China Pakketvaart Lijnen (Royal Interocean Lines) its offices moved to Interocean House at North Point in 1958.