Rumah Penghulu Abu Seman (The Penghulu Abu Seman House)
Restored Malay timber house on stilts, relocated from a Kedah village, with carved kerawang panels.
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This guide to the Penghulu Abu Seman House in Kuala Lumpur follows a Malay timber house that stood empty for more than fifteen years in a Kedah village after the district headman's line ended. It traces the house back to the 1910s and 1920s, when it was built for a man named Tok Taib and later bought by Abu Seman bin Nayan, who governed his community from its veranda. Look closely at the carved kerawang panels set into the walls, the same screens that cooled the house a century ago.
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