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100 Cintra Street is a 19th century mansion along Cintra Street, George Town. Presently used as a guesthouse, 100 Cintra Street. It is believed to have been built by one Myroon Koon Nye Sone, a wealthy Thai lady, around 1881. The mansion has been readapted for different purposes since then.
In the pre-war days, 100 Cintra Street served as an inn. Later on, it became a communal home of the black-and-white amahs, a group of women servants from China. In 1976 it housed a modern air-conditioned department store (I remember buying a monopoly set there). The department store was destroyed by fire in 1986. At the turn of the third millennium, it was also a budget hostel, and recently, restored as a cultural bazaar and heritage centre.
Update 2011
I passed by 100 Cintra Street in 2011, and found that the building is once again under restoration.
100 Cintra Street, George Town (17 December 2008)
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100 Cintra Street in 2011 (17 April 2011)
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