This is a photograph of the Raffles Hotel, taken around 1910 by Lee Poh Yen. The Raffles Hotel was a colonial style hotel. Initially a privately owned beach house built in the 1830s, it became Emerson's Hotel in 1878 and opened as the Raffles Hotel in 1887. The new main building, pictured here, was built in 1899 by architect John Bidwell. This photograph was previously displayed in the Raffles Hotel Museum.
