Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

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14 Leith Street, Penang, Malaysia 10200+60 4 262 5289
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The blue Mansion.
The blue Mansion.

by garymarsh6

Gravesend, United Kingdom

December 27, 2010

Best of IgoUgo This mansion is known as the Blue mansion due to the indigo paint that covers the house. It was built in 1880 by a rich Chinese entrepreneur whose origins were of a much humbler background.Cheong Fatt Tze was born in 1840 in Taipu, Guangdong ...Read more

From journal The pearl of the East.

Fengshui 101 at the Blue Mansion
Fengshui 101 at the Blue Mansion

by Composthp

Singapore, Singapore

May 29, 2005

Best of IgoUgo The Blue Mansion, aka Cheong Fatt Tze mansion, is one of Penang’s foremost restoration project that has won the National Architecture award for conservation in 1995 and the UNESCO conservation award in 2000. This boutique hotel cum museum once ...Read more

From journal Penang Revisited

Not quite a museum, but don't miss this!

by puong

Singapore, Singapore

March 17, 2005

Winner of the UNESCO Conservation Award, the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion is actually a carefully restored mansion of a wealthy man in the 19th century who built his riches from scratch. Behind the beautiful facade and architecture lies a both poignant ...Read more
The Blue House/Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
The Blue House/Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

by wanderer 2005

Phoenix, Arizona

February 17, 2005

Best of IgoUgo One hundred ten years ago, Cheong Fatt Tze, one of the most flamboyant of all Penang's multimillionaire towkays during the island's heyday of wealthy magnates, built a place to live with his seven wives. At the time, Cheong was the "Rockefeller of ...Read more

From journal Tropical Getaway

Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

by phileasfogg

New Delhi, India

October 19, 2002

Best of IgoUgo The `Rockefeller of the East’, Cheong Fatt Tze (1840-1916) was a Hakka tycoon and mandarin born to a poor farmer family; he came to Batavia (now Jakarta) when he was 16 and became a water-carrier. Over the years, Cheong Fatt Tze made his fortune and ...Read more