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Wisma Yeap Chor Ee (4 January 2009) Wisma Yeap Chor Ee (GPS: 5.41513, 100.3424) is an elegant historic building at China Street Ghaut, Penang. Built in 1922, it once belonged to its namesake, a rags-to-riches China-born tycoon who owned all the properties on the south side of China Street Ghaut.
Wisma Yeap Chor Ee, George Town, Malaysia. 156 likes · 1,009 were here. Wisma Yeap is the prominent heritage landmark in Penang which now is transformed to be a technology hub to gather all startup...
Wisma Yeap Chor Ee, built in 1922, was the first of the three buildings along the southern side of China Street Ghaut that were constructed by Yeap Chor Ee, a Chinese tycoon with business interests in various industries, including tin mining, rubber and sugar.
Wisma Yeap Chor Ee is an elegant historic building which is located right across China Street Ghaut from Wisma kastam and is on the same side as UAB building and the Regional Office of Wawasan Open University. Address. China Street Ghaut, George Town, 10200, Penang, MALAYSIA.
Located at the corner of China Street Ghaut (facing Weld Quay), the Malayan Railway Building (or Wisma Kastam as it is known today) and Wisma Yeap Chor Ee are “colonial giants” in every sense of the word.
18 Nov 2019 · His story is being told for the first time by his great-granddaughter. When Yeap Chor Ee left his hometown in southern China in 1885 to seek his fortune in Southeast Asia – then known as Nanyang, or the southern seas – he was just one of 125,000 people fleeing a land struck by famine and rebellion.
21 Jan 2022 · Built in 1922, Wisma Yeap Chor Ee was constructed by Chinese tycoon Yeap Chor Ee, who had business interests in tin mining, rubber and sugar. The three-storey complex has a whitewashed and rusticated exterior façade, allowing it to blend in with the colonial architecture prevalent along Weld Quay.
