100 Cintra Street
History of 100 Cintra Street
The property was granted in 1801 as part of an alienation south of Kampong Malabar. The building was built around 1881 as the residence of a wealthy Thai Mdm.Myroon Koon Nye Sone, a widow, who was the daughter of Phya Bichit Sone Kuan of Church Street Penang. It changed hands many times.Immediately, prior to it becoming a Hotel owned by the present owners, it was the communal home of the ‘black and white’ servants from China, called ‘Tung-koong’ servants. It was sold to the present owners by a Mr Chor Bah Say, a notable landowner of the period, in 1949 for a sum of twenty thousand Straits Settlement dollars.
It had been used as a Hotel from 1936. In 1976 it was extensively renovated and converted to an air-conditioned “modern” supermarket, was destroyed by fire in 1986 when the tenant moved out. Except for the load bearing part of the structure, nothing of the timber components was left. The Local Authority with due diligence immediately after the fire issued instructions that whatever structure that was left had to be demolished*.
* A proposed “Adaptive re-use for the Rebuilding and Restoration of 100 Cintra Street, Penang A One-stop Cultural Expose and Heritage Centre”,- A Heritage Bazaar for Penang’s Cultural Past, 24 Sept 1999.
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