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  • Scotts Road house : exterior

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph depicts probably, a traditional entrance to a house. Its features include a fresco, swinging doors (pintu pagar), iron security bars over the windows, timber framed glass screens and terracotta tiled flooring. Title devised by Library Staff.
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  • Race Course Road shophouse : general view [3]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a shophouse, with full-length French windows on Race Course Road. The first-storey windows are secured with iron security bars. Bat-shaped vents and swinging doors (pintu pagar) are also seen. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Minto Road house : exterior [3]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a house Minto Road. Features include casement and transom windows, forecourt and some decorative fretwork fascia underneath the eave of the roof. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Tay Lian Teck Road bungalow : general view

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a single-storey bungalow, located most probably at Tay Lian Teck Road. The house is elevated above ground level, which allows air circulation underneath. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Minto Road house : exterior [1]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a house with casement windows and fanlights along Minto Road. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Newton Road house : exterior [5]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1971 photograph depicts part of a house on Newton Road. The features seen here are fretwork fascia wooden casement windows some with fanlight, cloth blinds and a wooden balustrade. Also seen are iron security bars for some of the basement vents. Title devised by Library Staff.
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  • Town area shophouses : general view

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph highlights terrace shophouses. The architectural details of the three storey shophouse in the middle include casement half-length windows with fanlights on the top tier, fretwork fascia on the rooftop and full-length French windows on the second level. These features are typical of shophouses in Singapore during that...
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  • Newton Road house : exterior [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1968 photograph depicts part of a house on Newton Road. The features seen here are wooden casement windows with fanlight, wooden and stone balustrade, cloth blinds. Also seen are iron security bars for the basement vents. Title devised by Library Staff.
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  • Dunman Road house : general view

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a single-storey house along Dunman Road. Dunman Road was named after the Police Magistrate and Commissioner, Thomas Dunman and is located off Tanjong Katong Road. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Guillemard Road : general view [3]

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1968 photograph shows part of Guillemard Road. Some houses can be seen by the side of the road. Guillemard Road was constructed in 1932 to provide a through route to Geylang Road via Lorong 12. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • East Coast Road towards Odeon Katong : general view

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows East Coast Road heading towards Odeon Katong. Some housing can be seen on the right. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Telok Kurau Road, 1967 : general view

    Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows Telok Kurau Road with houses on both sides of the road. Named after a fishing village called Telok Kurau on East Coast Road, the road has been a popular middle-class residential district since the 1960s. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Tanjong Katong Road, 1968 : general view [1]

    Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1968 photograph shows Tanjong Katong Road, leading to Dunman Road. On the left is a private residence. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Emerald Hill Road house, corridor : general view

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows the corridor of a house at Emerald Hill, located off Orchard Road. The house features a set of swinging doors (pintu pagar) and floor tiles with geometric patterns. The swinging doors are a typical feature of Peranakan houses, allowing in breezes while maintaining privacy. Title devised...
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  • Thomson Road corner shophouse : close-up

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows the French windows of a two-storey corner shophouse. The house is located at Thomson Road, near Newton Road (from photographer notes). Some architectural features seen include fanlights, Doric pilasters and green glazed bamboo-shaped roof tiling. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • East Coast Road shophouse, 1966 : general view [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a two-storey shophouse on East Coast Road. Bat-shaped air-vents and windows with iron security bars can be seen on the lower floor. The upper floor features half-length casement windows with plaster relief panel underneath them. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Houses at junction of Neil Road and Kreta Ayer Road : general view [3]

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1969 photograph shows houses situated at the junction of Neil Road and Kreta Ayer Road. Prominent features seen are full-length French windows, rooftop balustrades, as well as, a pavilion-like structure at the top of the building. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Upper Paya Lebar Road bungalow : general view

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1968 photograph shows a bungalow on Upper Paya Lebar Road. The house is partially-hidden by trees. There are blinds installed along the verandah to protect against the sun and rain. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Koon Seng Road house : exterior

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1972 photograph shows the exterior of a two-storey house on Koon Seng Road. There is decorative fretwork fascia under the eave of the roof. The upper floor has three wooden casement windows, separated by pilasters. Above the transom windows is the frieze with moulded floral swags. The windows are...
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  • House of Tan Yeok Nee : interior [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a white wooden door found in a house. The mansion is located at the corner of Penang Road and Clemenceau Avenue. It was once home to a wealthy Chaozhou-born businessman Tan Yeok Nee, who built it in 1885. Date of creation estimated. Title devised by Library...
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  • Grange Road bungalow : side view [3]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a two-storey bungalow on Grange Road. Architectural features include V-profile clay tile roof, casement windows and porch. Grange road has been under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's conservation scheme since 1991 to preserve the antiquity of the area. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Oxley house : exterior [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a house that used to belong to Dr. Thomas Oxley (1805-1886), a colonial surgeon. Features include casement and transom windows, cloth blinds and garden. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Race Course Road shophouse : general view [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a shophouse with fretwork fascia below the eaves of the roof on Race Course Road. Full-length wooden louvre French windows are featured. A canopy and vents are also seen. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Two-storey bungalow : general view [4]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Sports and Recreation · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1984 photograph shows a general view of a two-storey bungalow at an unknown location. Features include casement and transom windows, driveway and a garden. Title devised by Library staff.
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