1919 Grand Cafe (Manila)

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Formerly the HSBC Building (Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Building)

On September 22,1922, the acting Governor-General of the Philippines, Charles Emmett Yeater, spoke at the dedication of the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank's new building on Calle Juan Luna and Callejon San Gabriel in Binondo. Standing on a 10,706 sq. meter lot with five storeys of structural steel encased in concrete; its treasury vaults had enclosing walls of 40 inches, including armored walls 20 inches thick and reinforced with two networks of twisted steel bars. The ground floor ceiling was 23 ft high, and the upper floor's ceiling sixteen feet high. The architect was an American, G.H. Hayward, as was the contractor, Oscar F. Campbell.

(Source:www.philippine-trivia.com/Geography/Famous-Architectual...