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*this article first appeared on www.boothby.com.au: full article here
When Bar Kap opens to the public in June, it will be merely the latest chapter for a building with a history that not just pre-dates modern Singapore, but goes back to the 1880s — and one that has been designated as a national monument.
The project, led by Bobby Carey and Tom Hogan’s new bar consultancy firm Studio Ryecroft, takes residence in the grand mansion built by Tan Yeok Nee.
The House of Tan Yeok Nee is the last example of a Singaporean Teo Chew courtyard grand mansion, and was where the tycoon lived until the turn of the last century. The building was then used for other purposes over the last 140 years: it was the house of the railways master before World War Two; it then became a Salvation Army headquarters after the war, until 1991, when it was briefly a traditional Chinese medicine hall and a university.
In 2022, the Kareem Family Foundation secured the site and set about restoring it to its former glory.
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