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Ambassador Hotel [1960-1994]
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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]
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".
Hongkong Hotel - Queen's Road at Pedder Street [1868-1952]
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.
Hongkong Hotel, North Wing [1892-1926]
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The Metropole Hotel / Belle View Hotel / North Point Hotel, North Point [1898-1906]
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]
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:
President / Hyatt Hotel [1963-2006]
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This hotel opened as The President Hotel in 1963, but later was re-branded as a Hyatt hotel.
It was demolished in 2006, and re-built as the iSQUARE mall: