Lou Kau Mansion
Cantonese merchant's mansion from 1889, with three courtyards and Chinese-Portuguese architecture.
This guide to the Lou Kau Mansion in Macau follows Lou Kau, who arrived in the city in 1857 with almost nothing after fleeing the Red Turban Rebellion, and built a fortune first in currency exchange, then as Macau's first gambling magnate, controlling fan-tan tables and lottery concessions across the city. The mansion completed in 1889 is presented as the peak of that rise, its three courtyards mixing Chinese brick carving and oyster-shell windows with Western false ceilings for the household of one wife, nine concubines and nearly thirty children. Look for where those two worlds meet overhead as you walk the courtyards, in the carved beams and the ceilings above them.
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