Stripping away the often elaborate ornamentation of the architecturalstyles popular before World War I, it was a conscious effort to capture the spirit of modernity.
Both a lovely example of what happens when colonial and Chinese architecturalstyles blend, the mansion is also a monument to the entrepreneurial skill and posturing that, to this day, animates the local " Baba Nonya" community, descendants of those Chinese merchants who settled in the great Malay and Indonesian archipelagos.