Civic & heritage · Singapore River
The Old Thong Chai Medical Institution
The Old Thong Chai Medical Institution is a gazetted national monument of Singapore in Singapore River, Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.
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- Architecture & design — A building whose interest is legible from the street, whether or not anything inside it is open. It is in this corpus as gazetted as a national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.
These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.
Sources & verification
- coordinates.latitude
- Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Point published against this record by Urban Redevelopment Authority.
- coordinates.longitude
- Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- name
- Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- The register's own title for this record is "The Old Thong Chai Medical Institution"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of markup and case, not a rename.
- externalIds.sourceRecordId
- Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- The identifier Urban Redevelopment Authority gives this record. Read from the response.
- category
- Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "sg_monuments".
- neighborhoodId
- Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Assigned by point-in-polygon against the Urban Redevelopment Authority's published Master Plan boundary.
Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.
Created from record 1/18 of Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer.
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