The Peak Hotel was a

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at upper terminus of the

Peak Tram The Peak Tram is a funicular railway in Hong Kong, which carries both tourists and residents to the upper levels of Hong Kong Island. Running from Garden Road Admiralty to Victoria Peak via the Mid-Levels, it provides the most direct route and o ...

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. It started as a bar and restaurant, and a hotel with twenty bedrooms for summer visitors opening about the same time as the Peak Tram, in 1888. About 13 years earlier, in 1875, N.J. Ede had built a house named ''Dunheved'' on the property. In 1881, Alexander Findlay Smith, a Scottish former railway man, had petitioned for the right to introduce a funicular railway to Hong Kong. The

was built and began operations in 1888. About the same time, Findlay Smith bought ''Dunheved'' from Ede, and opened it as the Peak Hotel. (Ede and his family moved next door.) After the Peak Tram opened, Findlay Smith quickly put the Peak Hotel on the market. It was sold, and completely rebuilt into an imposing three-story building, reopening in 1890. It boasted of ''commodious and well-appointed accommodation'', and the hotel was deservedly popular. Later, another story was added to make it four stories, and then a two-story annexe with views down to

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was built. A further addition doubled the size of the annexe and added a third story. The hotel commanded views of the city and the harbour in one direction, and of Pok Fu Lam facing

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in the other. In 1922 it was bought by the owners of the rival

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600,000. The hotel's poor construction led to further deterioration. It closed in 1936 and in 1938 its fate was finally sealed by a fire.Eric Cavaliero
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