Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

For history buffs keen to know more about the Chinese Revolution and ROC's first provisional president Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the Nanyang Memorial Hall at 12 Tai Gin Road in Balestier is a good place to start. (Mr. David Lee would've been there many times, I'm sure.)

5Built by businessman Boey Chuan Poh in 1880 to house his mistress, this double-storey colonial villa is now a museum and national monument that receives about 2,000 visitors a month. Only that the management needs to eradicate the exterior mosquito problem.

5When rubber magnate Teo Eng Hock acquired the residence for his aged mother back in the early 1900s, the bungalow was then given a new Chinese name, Wan Qing Yuan, to symbolize peace and happiness in the latter's twilight years. Talk about filial piety.

5Convening with his Kuomintang cronies to conspire an uprising? Or were they just discussing about were to go for supper?

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