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Shanghai Donghu Hotel
Shanghai, China · Independent · Near Luxury
At 70 Donghu Road in Xuhui, Shanghai Donghu Hotel is six villas in a garden on the old French Concession. Buildings 1 and 2 have stood since 1934, the mansion Jin Tingsun built for Du Yuesheng, and the house took the Donghu Hotel name in 1985. At the Huaihai Road corner, Building 7 is a two-story French Renaissance villa, with Ionic double columns, Baroque scrollwork on the eaves, and bronze lamps shaped like candles.
- Opened 1985
- Neighborhood: Donghu Road, Xuhui
About Shanghai Donghu Hotel
- Jin Tingsun paid for the 1934 houses with aviation-lottery profits, about 300,000 US dollars, and after the war the mansion went to the US Information Service.
- From 1950 the compound was a guesthouse for the East China Bureau, and from 1954 for the Shanghai Party committee, before guests checked in under the Donghu name.
- The door is 70 Donghu Road, near Xinle Road, on the south side of Huaihai, in Xuhui. Jing'an is the next district north.
History
Buildings 1 and 2 at 70 Donghu Road went up in 1934 as a garden mansion Jin Tingsun built for Du Yuesheng, paid for with aviation-lottery profits. After the war the house passed to the US Information Service, then became an East China Bureau guesthouse in 1950 and a Shanghai Party guesthouse in 1954. It took the Donghu Hotel name in 1985. Six buildings make up the compound, and Building 7, at the Huaihai Road corner, is a two-story French Renaissance villa.
The setting
70 Donghu Road, near Xinle Road, Xuhui, on the south side of Huaihai Middle Road in the old French Concession. Jing'an begins on the north side of Huaihai. This door is Xuhui.
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