Sathon Mansion

Sathon Mansion
Sathon Mansion in 2015
General information
Address	106 North Sathon Rd., Silom Subdistrict, Bang Rak District
Town or city	Bangkok
Country	Thailand
Coordinates	13°43′20″N 100°31′44″E / 13.72222°N 100.52889°E / 13.72222; 100.52889
Completed	1888
Renovated	2006–14

The Sathon Mansion or Luang Chitchamnongwanit Mansion is a complex of historic buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. It was built in 1888, during the reign King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), for Luang Chitchamnongwanit, son-in-law of Luang Sathon Rajayukta (Yom Pisolyabutra), the wealthy Chinese businessman and government official who owned and developed the land around Khlong Sathon. In 1910, Luang Chitchamnongwanit went bankrupt, and ownership of the mansion fell to the Privy Purse (later to become the Crown Property Bureau) in 1916. King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) bestowed the mansion to Chao Phraya Ram Rakhop, and later, in the 1920s, it became the site of the Hotel Royal. In 1948, the property was leased to the USSR, and it served as the site of the Soviet—and later Russian—Embassy until the year 2002.^[1]

The mansion underwent extensive renovations in the 2000s, as part of development of the Sathorn Square office tower and the W Bangkok hotel, which now straddle the mansion on each side.^[2] It reopened in July 2015 as a restaurant and entertainment venue for the W Bangkok, known as "The House on Sathorn".^[3]

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