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Ambassador Hotel [1960-1994]

Submitted by moddsey on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 19:14

Address: 4 Middle Road. Notable Restaurants: Caliph Room, Sung Lounge and Dynasty Room. There was also the Coffee Shop, Lobby Bar, Cellar Bar and The Point After (Cocktail Lounge).

A giant mosaic measuring 143 feet long and 15 feet wide was put up on the side of the hotel facing Nathan Road. 

Closed down in 1994. See: https://www.hkha.org/60th/photo-gallery-hotel/

Rustomjee & Co. / Keying House / The Parsee’s residence [1845-1868]

Submitted by annelisec on Sun, 09/12/2010 - 20:18

Manchu dynasty imperial commissioner, Ch'i-ying.

The foreign community's regard for Ch'i-ying as their patron made him a temporary vogue.  A few months later the spacious and commodious premises" of a new British hotel on Queen's Road were christened "Keying House".

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Hongkong Hotel - Queen's Road at Pedder Street [1868-1952]

Submitted by annelisec on Sun, 09/12/2010 - 19:54

This original section of the Hotel was rebuilt several times, but the "Hongkong Hotel" was started, and remained, in this location for almost 85 years.

The original business plan of the Hongkong Hotel Company was to take over and refurbish the Oriental Hotel on Wellington Street. 

Enter Baron Gustav von Overbeck, Consul for Prussia and Austria-Hungary - and listed as an "assistant" at Dent's & Co.

The Metropole Hotel / Belle View Hotel / North Point Hotel, North Point [1898-1906]

Submitted by David on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 16:33

As Moddsey guessed, this was built where the Metropole Building stands today. The site was bigger then, stretching from King's Road (then the seafront) back to today's Ming Yuen mansions on Peacock Rd.

The notice of the sale gives the lot as IL 1705, which fortunately can still be found on map.gov.hk.

Club Germania (German Club) (Wyndham St - 3rd location) / French Hotel / Hotel America / Baltimore Hotel / Nippon Club / College Chambers [1872-1913]

Submitted by annelisec on Sat, 04/24/2010 - 19:36

1872 - Wyndham St at Wellington Street

This replaced the 2nd Club Germania, which was further up Wyndham St on the corner above D'Aguilar St.

On page 5 of The China Mail, 1902-10-30, the building was advertised as available to rent, as the club prepared to move to its fourth site, on Kennedy Road: