It funny that we should be talking about Eu Tong Sen street yesterday, because the man himself owned a magnificent mansion on the top of Mount Sophia:
Jerome writes:
There are several wonderful buildings, the stuff of fairy tales perhaps, that have sadly disappeared. One such building was the magnificent villa that belonged to Eu Tong Sen, Eu Villa that once dominated the landscape in the area – which as schoolboys we could get a glimpse of atop the high retaining wall just next to Peace Centre from where Wilkie and Sophia Roads met near the Sophia Flats. Eu Villa was in 1915, constructed on the site of Adis Lodge which, when it was built in 1907, was said to be one of the most magnificent mansions east of the Suez. Adis Lodge was owned by Nassim Nassim Adis, the owner of Hotel de L’Europe and sold to Eu Tong Sen in 1912. Another magnificent mansion that has vanished, was one owned by M. J. Nassim at 89 Wilkie Road.
It a shame that we no longer can see the Eu Villa, as even the old photograph hints at what a majestic mansion it was. Mount Sophia, named after Stamford Raffles’ second wife Sophia Hull, still has a number of old gems, and you can read more about them in Jerome’s post, The magical hill with a fairy-tale like mansion that was Mount Sophia.
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Raffles’ second wife Sophia Hull, still has a number of old gems, and you can read more about them in Jerome’s post,
Posted on December 13th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
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