Features
- Travel Destination
Penang
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
B
uilt in the 1880s, this famous indigo-blue Chinese
Courtyard House in Georgetown was the residence of Cheong Fatt Tze, a prominent Chinese
figure in the newly established Penang Straits
Settlement during the 19th century. The mansion was built
by master craftsmen brought in especially from China, who
used their skills to fashion the mansion with 38 rooms, 5
granite-paved courtyards, 7 staircases and 220 windows.
Rescued from the perils of development in the 1990s by a
small group of Heritage preservationists led by Laurence
Loh, the Cheong Fatt Tze mansion possesses splendid
Chinese timber carvings, Gothic louvre windows, russet brick
walls and porcelain cut & paste dec