Abandoned buildings of Malaysia
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Location : Macalister mansion, Penang
Visit date : 2009
Current Status: Abandoned | 2016 - Hoarded up and on the market
 
Lofty ceilings and a long entrance hall greets you as you enter this grand classical styled mansion. The floor was covered in colourful mosaic tiles even right through to the separate kitchen building to the rear of the house.

Sadly, scrap thieves had butchered the internals of this house and sliced away more than 90% of the 1st floor, alone. Even the entire main staircase was gone.

I have a friend who says she visited this very house many times when she was a child, as she was the god daughter to the matriarch of the house.
My friend says she remembers the main rooms being furnished with elaborately carved Rose wood furniture of every size and shape. Allegedly the matriarch retired overseas many year ago, taking with her key pieces of her prized furniture with her.

 
     
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
 
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