Goodwood Park Hotel aka Teutonia Club, Singapore

The Goodwood Park Hotel was originally the Teutonia Club  — an exclusive enclave for the expatriate German community in Singapore. Construction began in 1899 and on 21 September 1900, the new clubhouse opened its doors with an extravagant ball attended by about 500 guests. Good times at the Teutonia Club lasted until World War I.  The British Colonial Government in Singapore classified all Germans as enemy aliens and shipped most of them to Australia. The Teutonia Club was then seized by the Custodian of Enemy Property.


In 1918, the building was auctioned off to three brothers - Morris, Ezekiel and Ellis Manasseh, who also bought the surrounding houses from the Custodian of Enemy Property. The Manassehs managed the property and renamed it as Goodwood Hall, after the famous race-course in England. 


It functioned as a 'Restaurant-Cafe-Entertainment Palace'.  In 1929, the Manassah brothers decided to turn the building into a hotel named Goodwood Park Hotel. It became one of the finest hotels in Asia, attracting famous guests.

During World War II the Goodwood Park Hotel became the headquarters of the  Japanese Army.  After the war, the Singapore War Crimes Court erected a tent on the grounds of Goodwood Park to conduct trials.


Ezekiel's stepson Vivian Bath, took over proprietorship of the hotel in 1947. Over the next 20 years, he turned the hotel into one of the finest in Asia once again. Since then the Hotel has gone through many renovations that have turned the inside into an identikit modern luxury hotel, however the exterior retains its distinctive design.  


The Tower of the Goodwood Park Hotel was gazetted as a Singapore national monument in 1989.