This 1967 photograph shows a shophouse on Stanley Street. Features include full-length windows flanked by half-length casement windows on its upper storeys, windows on the third are topped with fanlights, and a Chinese-style roof canopy overhanging the first storey. The entrance to the shophouse is fixed with a pair of swinging doors (pintu pagar), a typical feature of Peranakan houses that allow breezes into the dwelling while maintaining privacy. Date of creation estimated. Title devised by Library staff.

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From the Lee Kip Lin Collection. All Rights Reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board Singapore 2009.

Subjects

• Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Residential Buildings
• Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Commercial Buildings
• Shophouses--Singapore--Photographs
• Multipurpose buildings--Singapore--Photographs
• Windows--Singapore--Photographs
• Doors--Singapore--Photographs