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The
grand mansion
(Definition of terms, for the sake of argument,
I classify a mansion simply as a high end residential building
with 4 or more bedrooms.)
Today the word mansions is generally misused by people for
just about any residential abode. What you see here are what
proper mansions were all about back in the day. Modern attempts
to capture the same class and feel seem to always fail and
end up looking more like a bad theme park attraction.
When you find one of these pre war sites to explore you've
hit the jackpot in exploration terms as these are pretty hard
to find now days.
Most are securely locked up and mothballed. Some are still
lived in, which they should be, but others have had their
families choosing to live elsewhere. Sites like these then
start to decay fast and go beyond that financial fine line
of being a possible restoration job, to that of a money pit
and ultimately abandoned.
On top of that, these mansion usually sit on prime property
locations and so many are knocked down for prime developments.
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Do you know its
history?
If anybody recognizes and knows the background history connected
with any of the locations on this website, then please get
in touch. Taking the photos is the easy part, trying to piece
together historical fact is the hardest and most important
part of this work.
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Angel
mansion
Visit date: 2008
| Year of build:
1920s
A ruined mansion of a wealthy Chinese estate owner, two
winged angels stand vigil at the properties entrance. |
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The
Big house
Visit date: 2008
| Year of build:
1850's
Hidden in a palm oil estate lies this
fantastic lost mansion and looked after by a Tamil family for
the past 60 years. |
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Kellie's
castle
Visit date: 2008
| Year of build:
1920
It may not be abandoned today, but very recently it was
one of Malaysia's fabled lost colonial buildings. |
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Shih Chung Branch School
Visit date: 2008
| Year of build:
1880's
This building started life as a Chinese private residence.
It was the first 4 storey high building in Penang and must have
been a magnificant building in its heyday. |
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The
Relau villa
Visit date: 2008
| Year of build:
193o's
The Relau villa, a strange abode with a central fresh
water swimming pool. The orginal roof is long since gone leaving
the villa looking more like a Roman ruin with its pillars still
standing tall. |
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Adorable
mansion
Visit date:
2008 | Year
of build: 1930's
A house along the twisty batu Feringgi road in Penang |
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Bangunan
Dato' Jafaar
Visit date: 2008
| Year of build:
1893
once the official residence of Johor's first chief minister.
It sits on a small hill in a semi restored coma, until someone
figures out what do with it. |
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