tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544831218372890796.post2101614356027203488..comments2024-03-23T23:48:17.475+08:00Comments on The Early Malay Doctors: Suffolk HouseFaridahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943998781435870417noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544831218372890796.post-65957270324080292542013-12-08T02:18:15.686+08:002013-12-08T02:18:15.686+08:00Much of the house exterior was reconstructed, and ...Much of the house exterior was reconstructed, and it is highly unlikely that Francis Light lived in this very house, as he was probably dead years before this house was actually constructed. The original Suffolk House that one sees in the gorgeous paintings is much bigger; compromise had to be made in the reconstruction as due consideration was given to not encroaching on the space of the school that is beside it.<br /><br />As for the 'lone' colonnade nearer to the entrance of the grounds, the chief architect of the restoration project chose to leave it there to show what colonnades or columns typically consist of during the construction process. The colonnades that one sees now at the Suffolk House are not original and were remade from scratch. One only needs to refer to the photographs from the early 20th century to see how this grand house had been painfully modified and remodified over the last hundred years or so. It is nothing short of a miracle that it has now been so beautifully restored and reconstructed to its near original proportions of its glorious days as a Neoclassical Anglo-Indian edifice amidst an idyllic setting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6544831218372890796.post-16106136133184689502013-12-08T02:17:51.659+08:002013-12-08T02:17:51.659+08:00Much of the house exterior was reconstructed, and ...Much of the house exterior was reconstructed, and it is highly unlikely that Francis Light lived in this very house, as he was probably dead years before this house was actually constructed. The original Suffolk House that one sees in the gorgeous paintings is much bigger; compromise had to be made in the reconstruction as due consideration was given to not encroaching on the space of the school that is beside it.<br /><br />As for the 'lone' colonnade nearer to the entrance of the grounds, the chief architect of the restoration project chose to leave it there to show what colonnades or columns typically consist of during the construction process. The colonnades that one sees now at the Suffolk House are not original and were remade from scratch. One only needs to refer to the photographs from the early 20th century to see how this grand house had been painfully modified and remodified over the last hundred years or so. It is nothing short of a miracle that it has now been so beautifully restored and reconstructed to its near original proportions of its glorious days as a Neoclassical Anglo-Indian edifice amidst an idyllic setting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com