Category:Eden Hall

**Eden Hall, Singapore**
	British High Commissioner's official residence in Singapore
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Instance of	official residence;
Location	Tanglin, Central Region, Singapore
Located on street	Nassim Road (28);
Architect	Regent Alfred John Bidwell;
Commissioned by	Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh;
Has use	official residence;
Inception	1904;
	1° 18′ 37.44″ N, 103° 49′ 18.12″ E
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Eden Hall at 28 Nassim Road, Singapore, was designed by Regent Alfred John Bidwell of Swan and Maclaren and built in 1904 by Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh on land owned by his business partner which formed part of a former nutmeg plantation. Manasseh first rented it out for use as a boarding house. Having purchased the land from his partner in 1912, in 1916 he moved into the house with an English widow, Elsie Trilby Bath, whom he had married, together with her two children Molly and Vivian. During World War II, the building was used by the Imperial Japanese Army as an officers' mess, and it was taken over by British forces after the end of the Japanese Occupation. Manasseh's stepson Vivian Bath regained possession of the house thereafter. In 1957 he sold it to the Government of the United Kingdom for £56,000, stating that a plaque should be installed at the bottom of the flagpole reading: "May the Union Jack fly here forever". The building was then used as an official residence by successive UK representatives and, since 9 August 1965, by the High Commissioner of the UK to Singapore. The Nassim Road and White House Park area where the house is located was gazetted by the Urban Development Authority as a conservation area on 29 November 1991.

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