Another interesting writeup in the NST series on The Old & The New

As pretty as a picture

IT’S red so it has to be part of the famous Stadhuys right? Wrong!

This building, which is next to the Stadhuys, was built by the British in 1931.

And everybody knows the Stadhuys is Dutch and built in the 1650s.

The site though was originally occupied by Dutch homes, but when the British came, they built some administrative buildings in their place.

This red building in Jalan Laksamana was originally the General Post Office (above picture taken in the 1950s), but it is now the Malacca Art Gallery.