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Sathon Mansion

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Town or city
  
Bangkok

Renovated
  
2006–14

Country
  
Thailand

Completed
  
1888

Sathon Mansion

Address
  
106 North Sathon Rd., Silom Subdistrict, Bang Rak District

Similar
  
Taksin Bridge, Krung Thonburi BTS Stati, Khlong San District, Saphan Taksin BTS Station, Surasak BTS Station

The Sathon Mansion or Luang Chitchamnongwanit Mansion is a complex of historic buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. It was built in 1888, during the reign King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), for Luang Chitchamnongwanit, son-in-law of Luang Sathon Rajayukta (Yom Pisolyabutra), the wealthy Chinese businessman and government official who owned and developed the land around Khlong Sathon. In 1910, Luang Chitchamnongwanit went bankrupt, and ownership of the mansion fell to the Privy Purse (later to become the Crown Property Bureau) in 1916. King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) bestowed the mansion to Chao Phraya Ram Rakhop, and later, in the 1920s, it became the site of the Hotel Royal. In 1948, the property was leased to the USSR, and it served as the site of the Soviet—and later Russian—Embassy until the year 2002.

Map of Baan Sathorn, Khwaeng Thung Maha Mek, Khet Sathon, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10120, Thailand

The mansion underwent extensive renovations in the 2000s, as part of development of the Sathorn Square office tower and the W Bangkok hotel, which now straddle the mansion on each side. It reopened in July 2015 as a restaurant and entertainment venue for the W Bangkok, known as "The House on Sathorn".

References

Sathon Mansion Wikipedia