Tan Yeok Nee House 
From Singapore Hotels & Singapore Lifestyle
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- Location: 207 Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore 239925
- Nearest MRT: Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station
Behind the Istana is the House of Tan Yeok Nee at the junction of Clemenceau Avenue and Penang Road. A Teochew cloth peddler turned wealthy gambier and pepper merchant, Tan Yeok Nee built his elegant Chinese-style house in 1885. It is the sole surviving example in Singapore of a traditional Chinese mansion.
Over the years, the mansion has served as the residence of a station master and a bishop, a boarding school for girls, accommodation for officer-staff of the Japanese Army during World War II and as the headquarters of the Salvation Army. It is a rare example of a typical Chinese southern style courtyard house, with a grand entrance and sloping roofs with spiral ornamentation.
Today, this national monument, after undergoing extensive restoration work, is now part of the Asian campus of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, but you can still admire its fine roof decoration from outside.
