Draft:Bukit Rose

Bukit Rose was a mansion in Bukit Timah, Singapore. Built by prominent businessman Ong Sam Leong, it housed four generations of the Ong family and inspired the Noel Barber novel Tanamera before being demolished in 1989.

History
Prominent businessman Ong Sam Leong built the mansion as a family home on Bukit Timah Road in somewhere around 1848. The mansion housed four generations of the Ong family, including businessman and municipal commissioner Ong Boon Tat and barrister Ong Tiang Wee.

British novelist Noel Barber attended a party at the mansion in 1938. His 1981 novel Tanamera: A Novel of Singapore, was based on the house.