The building in Malacca is next door to where hit Chinese drama serial The Little Nyonya was filmed.
Dating back to 150 years ago, it is now owned by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has been restored.
The building – two linked heritage townhouses at 54 and 56 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock – was opened yesterday by the Governor of Malacca.
NUS received $1.5 million from Ms Agnes Tan, the last surviving child of Straits Chinese community leader Tan Cheng Lock, to buy and restore the two houses in 2004.
That enabled a team of six academics and undergraduates from the university’s Department of Architecture of the School of Design and Environment to work with a Malacca-based conservation architect.
The team retained many interior features. Continue reading
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