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Heng Shan Moller Villa - Introduction
Moller Villa, located at No.30 Shan Xi S. Road of Shanghai, was founded in 1927 and it was completed in 1936. It is a villa in the style of Norwegian Architecture of northern Europe. Reputed as a Villa of Dreams, this villa is integrated with the elite of oriental architecture and western architecture. Moller Villa used to be the private residence of Moller, a British merchant prince. The founder of Moller Villa, Moller Eric came to Shanghai in 1919. He ascended among the "Horse Race Nightclub" with his race horses as the capital. He became the taipan of the nightclub after two or three years. And then he was engaged in business of shipping and real estate, getting one of the wealthiest merchants in Shanghai. Mr. Moller made a pet of his youngest daughter. When he learnt that she longed for a castle just as one in Andersen's fairy tale very much, Moller, who loved daughter a lot, invited architects from different places to design a private residence with garden entitled his name according to what were described in Andersen's fairy tales to make his daughter's dream come true and wish his own shipping career flourishing.
Reputed as a Villa of Dreams, this villa is integrated with the elite of oriental architecture and western architecture. It is worthy of a world-shaking work. You will be deeply moved and dream away as soon as you merely look at its appearance. The sharp steeples and fluctuant eaves look like snowcovered peaks and tableland, strewn at random. The changeful uneven walls form the unique architectural appearance and the well-arranged colorful firebricks put a beautiful dress on the building. Moller Villa has a garden covering an area of about 2000 square meters. There is a bronze statue of racehorse on the lawn in the middle of the garden, under which the racehorse via which Moller got rich in those years was buried. Meteorites of different sizes and various kinds of stone lion, stone dog and stone drum etc. may be seen everywhere in the garden. The most precious stuff in the garden is the petrified wood with more than one hundred million years' experience. Besides, a beacon was placed at the gate. It went without saying that it symbolized the shipping business of Moller. In order to beatify the scenery and make it convenient for appreciating flowers indoors, there is also a greenhouse in the garden, equipped with central heating system. The room is decorated with delicate carve patterns and the floor is paved with colorful ceramic tiles. The tall bounding wall around the garden is covered with firebricks and capped with green-yellow Chinese glazed tiles. A couple of Chinese-style stone lions sit at the gate, which fully embodies the architectural motif that Moller combined the oriental culture with the western culture.
Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League began to handle official business in this building since 1949. It was ranked among the first batch of Neoteric Excellent Protective Buildings of Shanghai in 1989. In January 2001, it was put under the management of Henghan (Group) Company, a large travel group in Shanghai. It was rebuilt into a small exquisite hotel and formally went into operation in May 2002. It was named Hengshan Moller Villa.
Hengshan Moller Villa is a small-sized but top-quality hotel subordinate to Shanghai Hengshan Group. Located at the downtown intersection of Shan Xi S. Road and Yan An C. Road, it is 8 kilometers away from the Hongqiao Airport and 5 kilometers apart from the Shanghai Railway Station. Mollere Villa is a distinctive architecture with convenient transportation and tasteful surroundings. This fairy tale villa has attracted countless guests both at home and abroad for over sixty years.
The predecessor of Moller Villa was Moller Residence, which was set up in 1936. It was a unique northern European Norway-style architecture with some tall and some short steeple, uneven and changeable wall and upward eaves. It covers 2989 square meters and has three stories altogether. Its garden occupies over 2180 square meters. In 1989, Moller Residece was listed in the first batch of excellent modern architectures and was listed as a municipal cultural relic.
In January 2001, Hengshan Group was in charge of Moller Residence. Hengshan Group began to make complete renovation to the villa on the basis of preserving its original architectural style, appearance and its structural system and newly set up building No.2 as the main building according to the architectural aim history and function. It also added many modern service facilities and functions, such as telecommunication, air-conditioners, drain, ventilation, fighting, fighting fire, security, etc. in order to fulfill the requirements of a modern hotel. Now the rebuilt MollerVilla owns British-style, French-style, Italy-style and Spanish-style deluxe rooms, European style business affairs rooms and varied style of small or large sized restaurants which provide Yue, Chuan and Hu typical local dish and French-style western food. Different kinds of cocktail parties and buffet parties can also be held on the big lawn in the garden. The villa also includes all kinds of service facilities, such as presence chamber, multimedia business assembly rooms, movies and television hall, coffee bar, chess and card rooms, business center, shopping center, beauty salon and gymnasium, etc. to meet the needs of high-placed guests and high-grade meetings. It is also the best place for honored guests both at home and abroad to live, do business or get together.
We are awaiting respectfully your guests both at home and abroad to be present here sincerely.
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