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  • Oxley Road houses : general view [5]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1971 photograph shows a row of houses at Oxley Road, each sporting architectural styles from different periods. These include late-style shophouses featuring full-length French windows, as well as, buildings with more modern-style, functional facades. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Neil Road house, 1966 : general view [6]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a terrace house on Neil Road featuring a set of swinging doors (pintu pagar), a distinctive fixture of Peranakan houses that allows in breezes while maintaining privacy. Seen above the door is a plaque inscribed with Chinese characters that signify peace and harmony (怡和). Title devised...
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  • Oxley Road houses : general view [6]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1971 photograph shows a row of houses at Oxley Road, each sporting architectural styles from different periods. These include late-style shophouses featuring full-length French windows, as well as, buildings with more modern-style, functional facades. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Syed Alwi Road house : exterior

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a terrace house at Syed Alwi Road, with its second storey featuring a loggia. The façade of the shophouse is heavily decorated with plaster swags, fretwork roof fascia, and Corinthian-style columns. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Oxley Road houses : general view [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1970 photograph shows a row of terrace houses at Oxley Road. Common features of the houses are the full-length French windows on the upper storeys, as well as, the forecourts laid out at the front. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Neil Road house, 1966 : general view [1]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a terrace house on Neil Road, featuring a forecourt and a pair of qilin (mythical Chinese creatures) placed atop gate posts. Known in the past as Silat (or Selat or Salat) Road, Neil Road was renamed in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny hero, Brigadier-General James George...
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  • Koon Seng Road, 1966 : general view [4]

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows Koon Seng Road. A block of shophouses can be seen. Above the corner shophouse is a pointed roof profile, with decorative elements on it. The corner shophouse is probably serving as an eating place. Some terrace houses can also be seen in the background. Title devised...
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  • Neil Road house, 1966 : general view [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a terrace house, fronted with a forecourt on Neil Road. Features include casement and transom windows, swing doors and accordion gate. Known in the past as Silat (or Selat or Salat) Road, Neil Road was renamed in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny hero, Brigadier-General James George...
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  • Pavement outside Cuppage Road terrace houses : general view

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This photograph taken in 1967 shows the pavement outside a row of terrace houses along Cuppage Road. Prominent features of these houses include full-length French windows topped with architraves, as well as, dentilled cornices running along the top of the houses. Cuppage Road, located near Orchard, was named after Postmaster...
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  • Oxley Road houses : general view [3]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1970 photograph shows a row of terrace houses at Oxley Road. Common features of the houses are the full-length French windows topped with transom windows on the upper storeys, as well as, the forecourts laid out at the front. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Oxley Road houses : general view [4]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1970 photograph shows a row of terrace houses at Oxley Road. Common features of the houses are the full-length French windows topped with transom windows on the upper storeys, as well as, the forecourts laid out at the front. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Onan Road house : general view [1]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a restored terrace house, on Onan Road. Separating the casement windows are pilasters decorated with ceramic tiles. The ornate design of the house indicates that it is probably in the Late Shophouse Style (1900-1940). The tripartite arrangement of three windows on the facade reduces the wall...
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  • Kim Yam Road houses, 1971 : general view [6]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1971 photograph shows two classic three-storey, three-bay terrace house from the late style on Kim Yam Road. The shophouse features full-length French windows topped with fanlights, pilasters with Corinthian-style capitals, and dentilled cornices. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Onan Road house : general view [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a restored terrace house, on Onan Road. Separating the casement windows are pilasters decorated with ceramic tiles. The ornate design of the house indicates that it is probably in the Late Shophouse Style (1900-1940). The tripartite arrangement of three windows on the facade reduces the wall...
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  • Neil Road house, 1966 : general view [5]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a terrace house, located at 176 Neil Road. Possessing a classic three-storey, three-bay structure, the house features full-length French windows and Western-styled ornamentation, which includes decorative pilasters, transom windows and bas-reliefs of acanthus leaves on its front façade. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Kim Yam Road houses, 1966 : general view

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1966 photograph shows a shot down of Kim Yam Road. Terrace houses lined one side of the road. The terrace houses look to be of the late shophouse style. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Two-storey terrace houses : general view [4]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows some two-storey terrace houses at an unknown location. A long walkway can be seen in front of the houses. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Kim Yam Road houses, 1965 : general view

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1965 photograph shows two classic three-storey, three-bay terrace house from the late style on Kim Yam Road. The shophouse features full-length French windows topped with fanlights, pilasters with Corinthian-style capitals, and dentilled cornices. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Crescent Road, 1968 : general view

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1968 photograph shows Crescent Road. On the left of the road is a row of private houses, probably terrace houses. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Desker Road terrace house, 1967 : exterior [1]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a rather heavily decorated terrace house on Desker Road, suggesting that it might have been built during the late style period (1900-1940). It sports full-length French windows on its upper storey, and Western-style decorative features such as Corinthian-style pilasters, traceried transom windows, architraves, swags, dentilled cornices,...
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  • Tanjong Katong Road two-storey terrace houses, 1967 : general view

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows some terrace houses on Tanjong Katong Road. These houses have a balcony on their upper level, protruding from the middle window. Below two of the casement windows are plaster relief panels with moulded swags. Above the casement windows are transom windows that allow for natural ventilation....
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  • Two-storey terrace houses : general view [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows some two-storey terrace houses at an unknown location. Title devised by Library staff.
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  • Boon Leat Terrace house : general view

    Streets and Places · Arts · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1967 photograph shows a double-storey terrace house with fretwork fascia below the eaves of the roof. Full-length French windows and half-length casement windows are featured. Plaster relief panels (below the casement windows) and iron security bars can be seen. Boon Leat Terrace is located off Pasir Panjang Road, in...
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  • Koon Seng Road terrace houses, 1969 : general view [2]

    Arts · Streets and Places · Lee, Kip Lin · Lee Kip Lin Collection
    This 1969 photograph shows a row of pastel coloured shophouses located at Koon Seng Road. The houses are decorated with a floral design as seen on the piers (at the front gate of the house) as well as on the pilasters and underneath the windows. Decorative fretwork fascia are also...
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