Title
The Kingsclere Hotel, Kowloon
Year/Period
c. 1910s
Region
Hong Kong
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: 9.7 x 12 cm
Accession No.
2001-03782
Collection of
The first Kingsclere Hotel was situated at Caine Road but this soon gave way to a new entity along Kennedy Road that was opened in 1906. This second hotel was initially the private residence of Emanual Raphel Belilios, a Jewish businessman who made his fortune in the opium trade. A popular social venue for Europeans in Hong Kong, the site where the hotel was situated on was sold to a consortium in the 1920s for redevelopment into private residences.
