Buildings beside the City Hotel in Jing 'an District

Muller Villa Muller Villa, also known as Mahler House, is located at No.30, South Shaanxi Road, covering an area of over 5,000 square meters and a garden area of nearly 2,000 square meters.

1927, British Jew Mahler (19 19) came to Shanghai and became a wealthy businessman by betting on horses. At that time, he was a big class in Shanghai Happy Valley Hall. The private garden villa designed and built by the famous Gaihua architectural firm at that time lasted for 9 years and was completed on 1936. The main building is a three-story Scandinavian Norwegian style building, just like a castle in a fairy tale world. 194 1 year, in order to escape the war, Mahler left China, leaving this "dream castle" that could not be taken away. Mahler House has experienced many wars and changed hands several times. After 1949, it became the office of Shanghai Youth League Committee. 1989, Mahler House was listed as the first-class outstanding modern architectural cultural relics protection unit in Shanghai.

The designer of this villa is Mahler's daughter. The little girl had a dream one night about a big house with fairy tales. Her father Mahler then built this unique Norwegian house according to the style his daughter saw in her dream. History of Mueller Villa: Mueller Villa was changed into the office of the Youth League Committee.

The main building of the villa is connected with the annex building, which is strewn at random, with steep roof and uneven shape. Doors and windows are arched, and doorframes protrude from the wall. The floor is steep, the two main towers are tall and straight as sheaths, and there are many layers of small windows. In the corner of the building, there is a small steeple to echo the main tower and have a beautiful shape. The whole ground is ochre red, all made of refractory bricks and embedded with colored tiles, which looks like entering a fairy tale world. The division and decoration of indoor rooms of various sizes are extremely complicated. Stairs, floors and siding are mostly teak, all reddish brown, and the carving and decoration have western flavor. The garden is surrounded by refractory bricks and glazed tiles. The flower house and grape house in the park are all paved with tiles. Because Mahler loves horses and dogs, there are horse graves and dog graves in the park, with bronze horse statues and marble tombstones. The entrance gate is red, and the gatehouse is supported by the red bucket arch. There are a pair of stone lions by the door. The fence along the street is also made of refractory bricks, showing the colorful colors of ochre and covered with green glazed tiles.

200 1 to 1, according to the arrangement of Shanghai municipal government, Shanghai Hengshan Group, a large domestic tourism group, entered Mahler Mansion, taking "history plus function" as the leading idea, and carried out a comprehensive transformation on the basis of protecting the original architectural style, appearance and structural system. After more than half a year's renovation, Mahler's residence was renamed "Hengshan moller villa Hotel". Hotel * * * currently has 45 guest rooms (sets), including 65438+ 16 old villa in Building 0, which retains the European style of the original building and is original. The newly-built Building 2 has 29 standard rooms. The market positioning of the hotel is high-end personal business and small business meetings, and each room is equipped with modern facilities such as central air conditioning, satellite TV, broadband network and security monitoring. The hotel officially opened to the public in May 2002, thus unveiling its mystery, becoming the only modern hotel built by a class of modern protected buildings in domestic cities and the first boutique hotel in Shencheng.