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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
14 Leith Street, Kampong Sungai Keluang 10200 Phone: 60 4 262 0006 Average Price: US$ 3 per person http://www.cheongfatttzemansion.com/About
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, a boutique hotel that one of Penang best-known attractions in an ornate edifice built in the traditional Hakka Teochew style. Located at 14 Leith Street, the structure was erected in the 1880s when Hakka merchant, Cheong Fatt Tze commissioned its construction.
A self-made and affluent merchant-trader, Cheong Fatt Tze left China as a penniless teenager but soon rose to the ranks of the well-heeled when he established a vast financial empire throughout East Asia at the end of 19th century. Despite the popularity of modern Anglo-Indian designs at the time, he chose to build his domicile as a traditional-style Chinese courtyard house. The stately manor has 38 rooms, five granite-paved courtyards, seven staircases and 220 timber-frame windows.
