Once the grandest private residence in Singapore located in the heart of East Coast Road along Karikal Lane once belongs to the cattle merchant Moona Kadir Sultan for his Karikal Mahal Palace named after his birthplace native town of Karikal in South India. After the war, the building was renovated into 20 rooms called Grand Hotel which opened in 1947, marketing as a seaside within walking distance and later the ownership was under the Lee Rubber Group. In 1973 due to the land reclamation in the vicinity, the road was extended and the hotel was sliced into two plot with the road Still Road South running through it and in 2009 the building was put on the conservation list in 2016 the building was converted into Odyssey Global Preschool and Pats Schoolhouse and operated opposite each other.
