People · architect
Davies & Brooke
新瑞和洋行
British architects named in the Shanghai gazetteer as designer and supervising architect of the Astor House Hotel, rebuilt and completed in 1907.
Davies & Brooke (新瑞和洋行, Xīnruìhé Yángháng) was a British architecture firm in Shanghai. The municipal gazetteer names it as designer and supervising architect of the rebuilt Astor House Hotel, finished in 1907. English Wikipedia says the firm traded earlier as Davies & Thomas.
Places
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Building· c. 1906–1911
Astor House Hotel
浦江饭店Pǔjiāng Fàndiàn
Shanghai's first Western hotel, founded 1846 and rebuilt c.1907–1911 by Waibaidu Bridge; site of the 1990 stock exchange, now a securities museum.
Sources
- 1.Shanghai Famous Buildings Gazetteer: the Broadway Mansions entry (node 108934) and the Astor House Hotel entry (node 108944) (上海名建筑志 · 欧美风情的沪滨广厦 · 浦西最佳观景台：百老汇大厦（上海大厦）；上海第一家西洋饭店：礼查饭店大楼（浦江饭店）), 上海市地方志办公室, 2009 — https://szfz.shtong.gov.cn/difangzhi-front/book/detailNew?oneId=1&bookId=81772&parentNodeId=81784&nodeId=108944&type=-1gazetteer
- 2.English Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (English Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_House_Hotel_(Shanghai)wikipedia