Ban Wanglih (บ้านหวั่งหลี)

Thai-Chinese. ‘Wanglih House’. Name of a two-storey mansion in Bangkok, built in 1881 and which for a time was used as the family home of Tan Siew Wang (陳慈黌), an influential Tae Chew businessman, who bought it from the Phraya Pisansuphaphol (พิศาลศุภผล), a relative of Luang Sathon Rajayukta. Tan Siew Wang belonged to the Wanglih Clan and he ran the Wanglih family business and networks from the mansion, which maintained trade routes with Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore and Saigon. When the business later expanded into rice milling it by 1920 had become one of Siam's largest rice millers and exporters. The mansion is built at the location of an old wharf, adjacent to the Lhong 1919 depots, which the family acquired in 1919. Ban Wanglih is built in typical Chinese courtyard architecture. Also transliterated Ban Wanglee. See MAP. 回