This 1986 photograph shows shophouses (dated 1920) at no. 217 and 219 Jalan Besar. The upper floor of the shophouses features casement windows with timber shutters, with transom windows at the top. Shops occupy the ground floor units of the two-storey shophouses. Title devised by Library staff.

Credit Line

All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

Subjects

• Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Commercial Buildings
• Architecture and Landscape>>Streets and Places
• Jalan Besar (Singapore)--Photographs
• Shophouses--Singapore--Jalan Besar--Photographs
• Architecture--Details--Photographs