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The Adelphi

📍 1 Coleman Street Singapore
🗺️ D06 — High Street, Beach Road, City Hall
🏢 MCST 1614Retail · Office🆔 UEN S91MC1614E✓ Management Directory

About The Adelphi

The Adelphi is a strata-titled retail and office building at 1 Coleman Street in District 6, the City Hall and Civic District. EdgeProp describes it as a 10-storey mixed-use development made up of a five-storey retail podium, an office block above and four basement car park levels. The land is held on a 999-year lease that began in 1828, and the site covers about 4,892 sqm.

The building takes its name from the Adelphi Hotel, which once traded on Coleman Street. Today the podium holds small specialist shops, including audio equipment dealers and salons, while the upper floors are offices. Many small firms use it as a business address: the Estate.sg directory counts about 1,280 registered companies across some 258 units.

Interesting facts

  • The Adelphi Hotel closed in 1973. At the time it was described as the oldest hotel in Singapore, with a history going back to the 1850s.

  • Coleman Street is named after George Drumgoole Coleman, the architect who became Singapore's first Superintendent of Public Works. He also designed the Armenian Church a few minutes' walk away.

  • The 999-year lease dates from May 1828, which makes the land title older than most buildings in the Civic District.

  • The building sits beside the former Supreme Court and City Hall, which now house the National Gallery Singapore.

Nearby

City Hall MRT station (North South and East West Lines) is about five minutes on foot, and Funan next door has an underground link to the station. Clarke Quay (North East Line) and Fort Canning (Downtown Line) stations are around ten minutes away. St Andrew's Cathedral, Peninsula Plaza, Parliament House, The Treasury and Capitol Singapore are close by. Funan and Raffles City offer food courts and restaurants, and the Singapore River is a short walk south.

Key facts

  • Address: 1 Coleman Street, Singapore 179803

  • District: 6 (City Hall, Civic District)

  • Property type: Retail and office (strata)

  • Tenure: 999 years from 1828

  • Storeys: 10, plus 4 basement car park levels

  • Site area: about 4,892 sqm

  • Nearest MRT: City Hall (NS25/EW13)

  • MCST: 1614