Friday, January 8, 2021

Rediscover Singapore - Clans Street/Mistress Street

Bukit Pasoh Road is home to the headquarters of close to 30 cultural and clans associations with about 70 years of history since 1920, during that time wealthy merchants were said to have kept a mistress in the residences alongside the clan association. The two and three-storey prewar art deco shophouses with wooden swing doors and fanciful moulding of rosettes on the walls and balconies with fluted balustrades and tiled roof, they ooze of old-world charm, along the street there was once the Majestic Hotel occupied unit No 31-37 with 30 uniquely furnished suites, today after 11 years after it began operation it was sold and turned into a Straits Clan an exclusive Club in 2018.