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Prominent businessman and municipal councilor, Loke Chow Kit built this sprawling mansion in 1907. Chow Kit could have been much influenced by what he saw during his 1903 European tour with Loke Yew. Built as a town house, it also housed a suite of offices for his mining ventures. Chow Kit could have employed A.K. Musdeen, an Anglo-Indian as his architect. Musdeen designed for Chow Kit Kuala Lumpur’s first department store, the present day Industrial Court Building. In those days, Loke Hall was just up the road from the first railway station.

In 1909, Loke Hall was taken over by a European Group who turned it into the Empire Hotel and remained so for 10 years. Meanwhile in 1916, the ownership of Loke Hall fell to Alan Loke, son of Loke Yew. Loke Hall was renovated yet again and became the Peninsular Hotel. As Empire and then the Peninsular, Loke Hall became a meeting ground for planters and members of the trading houses until 1973 when PAM acquired tenancy of the premises on an initial 2 years lease.

In February 1981, the estate of Alan Loke gave PAM notice to deliver vacant possession of the premises before 1 April 1981 as they had sold Loke Hall to Intan Development Sdn Bhd which intended to demolish the PAM Centre Building and the adjoining properties which were part of Loke Hall.

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