This is one of the grand old dames of hotels in Singapore. Built in 1900, it began as the Teutonia Club – an elite enclave for the expatriate German community in Singapore.

In 1918, three Jewish brothers by the family name of Manasseh bought over the property and renamed it as Goodwood Hall after the famous Goodwood Racecourse in England.

Goodwood Hall was registered in 1922 as a restaurant-café-entertainment establishment. One of its highlights that year was a glittering performance by one of the world’s greatest ballerina, Anna Pavlova.

In 1929, the Manassehs turned Goodwood Hall into the Goodwood Park Hotel, catering to travelling businessmen from Malaya. The hotel became one of the best-known hotels in Singapore at the end of the 1930s, and among the noted guests from that period was the Duke of Windsor, then the Prince of Wales of England …

I was nearby the area this afternoon and walked over to take these pictures of the hotel to post them here, and hope they will bring back fond memories of the place to PBase’s Walter Otto Koenig (amoxtli) here - Walter Otto Koening, as he told me he stayed in this hotel before in the 70s.