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THE SHANGHAI RACE CLUB APPOINTED CLUB HOUSE “MOLLER VILLA”
30 Shanxi Nan Lu (at junction of Yenan Lu), Jingan District, Shanghai, China (map at base of this page)
Club Manager: Juliet Zhu: juliet@theshanghairaceclub.com 00 86 21 6141 8602
Club Chairman: Byron Constable: Byron@theshanghairaceclub.com
CLUB HOUSE HISTORY
The appointed Club house is the Moller Villa formerly built and owned by Eric Moller a legendary race horse owner who belonged to The Shanghai Race Club in 1920-30′s. The luxurious Moller Villa is now fully restored and owned/professionally managed by the Heng Shan group.
Shipping tycoon Eric Moller was one of the richest men in old Shanghai – with all the trappings that went with it: membership in the Shanghai Race Club (where he owned several horses) and a gorgeous, fantasy mansion in the French Concession. A second-generation China hand, Moller was the scion of a wealthy businessman who had made his fortune in shipping and shipbuilding. Local lore has it that little Deirdre, Moller’s daughter, had a dream in which a house with a fairytale jumble of spires, steeples and gables appeared, and she sketched it upon waking for her father, who then had it built. The story has been discredited, but the storybook castle that is Moller Mansion still seems inspired by a dream. Grand soirees were held on the ornate first floor, inspired by the cruise ships that defined the era and the seafaring legacy that made the Moller fortune: two short “cruise ship” flights of stairs, a porthole window and stylized compass, and everywhere the floors, the ceilings, the walls — is the beautiful Swedish wood that Moller brought over on his own ships. The house rambles magnificently, they say, because a fortune-teller told Moller that disaster would befall him if he ever completed it. And so although the house was essentially done by 1936, he dawdled, finally finishing it in the late 1940s – and soon afterwards, he lost the house to the Communist takeover.
In the garden, a copper statue of a horse stands on the spot where Moller buried his favourite Arabian racehorse – a racehorse that won on Race Day, again and again.
BEDROOM SUITES
The appointed Club house bedrooms are located in the original Moller Villa building. There are 3 large bedrooms and 6 standard sized bedrooms.
Large bedrooms: rmb3600 (USD525) /night (+ 15% service charge)
The Standard sized bedrooms are similar in design and layout, though slightly smaller. rmb1800/night(USD262) + 15% service charge
GARDEN
DINING ROOMS
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Moller Villa, 30 Shanxi Nan Lu (at junction of Yenan Lu), Jingan District, Shanghai, China
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