Everything tagged: residential building

Address 5 Shiu Fai Terrace.

Date of first occupation is 11/1971. Residential building (1 block, 24 units).

On the 1970 map on hkmaps.hk the name is given as Hang Min Building.

The house was built around 1930 (guessed, on the 1922 map it is not there, on the 1935 map it is). Likely built at the same time as #5 Shiu Fai Terrace, possibly by the same owner as it looks that they shared the garden.

Was replaced by CHANTILLY  which opened in 2010.

The house was built around 1930 (guessed, on the 1922 map it is not there, on the 1935 map it is). Likely built at the same time as #6 Shiu Fai Terrace, possibly by the same owner as it looks that they shared the garden.

Was replaced by Sheffield Garden which opened 11/1971.

Three house on Shiu Fai Terrace that have almost the same date of first occupation: January-Mai 1965

K.Y. Mansion:  4A Shiu Fai Terrace (1 block, providing 12 residential units)

KENSINGTON COURT:  4B-4C Shiu Fai Terrace,  (1 block, providing 24 residential units)

Golden Fair Mansion:   4D-4E Shiu Fai Terrace (1 block, providing 24 residential units)

Although the lots seem to have been prepared for construction in the mid-1930s already, nothing happened until mid-1960s.

Triangular building at the junction of Yee Wo Street and Great George Street, the address is 1-1L Yee Wo Street. It has 1 block, providing 284 residential units plus shops. Date of first occupation is 1966-03-19.

Residential building at 21-23A Kennedy Road.

It has 9 storeys with 36 units. Date of first occupation was 26/01/1965.

It's hidden behind Hopewell Centre.

European building on I.L. 1941. The Public Works Report for 1915 refers:

Works completed:   European houses on I.L.'s 1934 and 1941, Kennedy Road. 

Was demolished around 1964 to make way for Fujiya Mansion.

Building at 121-123 Chatham Road on KIL 10553. 

The name is Winston Mansion (date of first occupation 9/1963). It is a residential building with 15 storeys and 4 units per floor.

Two-storey brick building at the junction of Chatham Road and Austin Avenue.

Probably at the same time as the church, a building was erected at the junction of Chatham Road and Austin Avenue, originally it was on KIL 617. This lot was split and the lot of the church and the rectory was renamed KIL 4030 in the 1930s. The original use of this building is unclear, but had probably a connection to Rosary Church.

From November 1921 to New Year’s Day 1923, it was used as the Maryknoll Sisters Convent.

With Neon sign "Asahi Pentax" on top of building. Building still exists (2021) but sign no longer there.