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The Goodwood Park Hotel (Chinese: 良木园酒店) is a heritage hotel in Singapore, situated in a 6-hectare landscaped garden on Scotts Road. It was first built as the club house for the Teutonic Club serving the expatriate German community in Singapore, and later converted into a hotel.
The six-storey luxury Ladyhill Hotel was opened by the Goodwood Group, which was owned by prominent banker and hotelier Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat, in 1968. [1] The hotel was designed by Wee Chwee Heng and built with bricks in a "white-and-brown scheme." Each room featured carpets, wall panelling made of teak, curtains made in America, lamps made ...
The Goodwood Park Hotel in Singapore, built in 1900, is a restored historic landmark. Around the period of his death in 2004, Khoo was ranked as the 108th richest person in the world by the business magazine Forbes. [3] Khoo's estate has donated S$80 million to Duke–NUS Medical School. [4]
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Goodwood's first contribution to the lawbooks came from less-noble impulses. Goodwood Plantation began in 1834, when the land was purchased by Hardy Croom, a wealthy North Carolina cotton planter.
Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh, 1930 Eden Hall, Singapore Goodwood Park Hotel. Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh (died 19 May 1944) was a Singaporean rice and opium merchant and hotelier of Iraqi-Jewish descent, who co-founded Singapore's Goodwood Park Hotel with his brothers Morris and Ellis.
After years of remaining vacant, the building was put up for sale by tender on 5 April 2002, with a net lettable area of about 78,600 square feet (7,300 m 2) over ten stories. [2] While the sale was on-going, the building was gazetted as a national monument on 10 February 2003, with the exterior façade coming under protection. [ 3 ]
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