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

Submitted by David on

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

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:

Miramar Hotel (first location) [1948-c.1990]

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"... the new wing of the Miramar Hotel.  It provides an extra 268 rooms, together with a magnificent theatre-restaurant and special banqueting rooms."

1967

"The Miramar Hotel at the corner of Nathan Rd and Kimberley Rd has an especially good reputation. It was also Hongkong's first postwar hotel, opened in 1948"