Ban Wanglih is
a two-storey mansion in
Bangkok,
built in 1881 and which for a time was used as the family home of an influential
Tae Chew
businessman..
He
belonged to the Wanglih
Clan and ran the family business and networks, which maintained trade routes
with Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore and Saigon, from here.
Wanglih Mansion
When the Wanglih business empire 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.