Mountain Lodge was the former summer residence of the Governor of Hong Kong on Victoria Peak on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The second building was a two storey Renaissance style home and was demolished in 1946. The site is now the Victoria Peak Garden, a public park.
Read more about Mountain Lodge: 2007 Archaeological Discovery, History - A Sanatorium, The First Mountain Lodge, The Second Mountain Lodge, 1920 Through Demolition, Plans
Famous quotes containing the words mountain and/or lodge:
“One who only sits idle and eats can exhaust a mountain of wealth.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man,—he had so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here,—a Canadian, a woodchopper and post-maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, who made his last supper on a woodchuck which his dog caught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)