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Smoke House Hotel
Keywords : Colonial Building
| Site common name | Smoke House Hotel |
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| Type of artwork | Architecture |
| Village | - |
| Province/City | Cameron Highland |
| State | Pahang |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : 4.484049 Long : 101.378638 |
| History of production | When the western conquered the Asia as their colony, the hot weather of the ground leaded the colonial seekers to move to the higher places having cold climate all year round like their home in Europe. The bungalows for rest or the hill stations on the mountaisn start from that reason. There are many hill stations in many countries like Darjeeling in India and Pyin OO Lwin in Myanmar. In Malaysia, Cameron Highland and Fraser’s Hill is the important hill station here. |
|---|---|
| Art | The old building of Smoke House Hotel is an English Cottage which looks like a cottage that inserted pine woods as extra structures in the wall. Inside the building have the brick fireplace and chimney to make the inside warm. This type of building is popular in the European countrysides. This English Cottage shows the desire for their hometown of the colonial seeker who tried to simulate their houses in Europe in the Hill station where the weather was cold all year round. |
| Period | Historical Period |
| Art period | British Colonization Period |
| Age | 20th Century A.D. |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
|---|---|
| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2015-02-00 |
| Record creator | Chedha Tingsanchali |
