Hong Kong Hotel

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hotel_name =Hong Kong Hotel
香港大酒店

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caption =The Hong Kong Hotel on the Central Praya (c.1900); Jardine Matheson opposite
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opening_date =1866
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closing_date =1926
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owner =The Hongkong Hotel Company
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Hong Kong Hotel was the Colony's first luxury hotel in Hong Kong. It was opened on the waterfront of Victoria Harbour, Central, Hong Kong in 1866.

The hotel

The building occupied an entire block, with entrances on Pedder Street, Queen's Road and Praya Central. Hong Kong's first deluxe hotel modelled after sumptuous London hotels, The Hongkong Hotel, stood roughly on the site of the present Central building [The Hongkong Hotel Company later became the The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, owner of The Peninsula Hotels chain.] , from 1866. Competing in all respects with the owners of The Star Ferry Company, who owned the Peak Hotel, the management provided a special launch to meet arriving passengers on incoming P&O mail steamers and ferry them direct to the hotel's pier.

Previous to the hotel, the land belonged to Dent & Co., where the west wing of its "princely" headquarters was located [cite book|last = Moss |first = Peter|title = Hong Kong - Another City Another Age| publisher = FormAsia Books Limited| date = 2002 | location = Hong Kong| pages = 63| id = ISBN 962-7283-46-0] . In 1886, the hotel had added a north wing on the site.

The hotel was later rebuilt into a 6-storey structure, completed in 1893 [http://www.singpao.com/20051029/feature/775212.html Feature: Buildings for Pedder Street since colonialisation] ，Sing Pao，October 29, 2005 zh icon] ; the hotel burned down on New Year's Day, 1926.

The site was acquired by Hong Kong Land in 1928, and Gloucester Tower was constructed in 1932. It was redeveloped into The Landmark in 1979Trevor Bedford, Hong Kong Land, reported in "Meeting heritage challenge", South China Morning Post, 30-Nov-1978] .

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