38 Oxley Road site set to be gazetted as national monument
38 Oxley Road site set to be gazetted as national monument
Singapore’s government intends to gazette the 38 Oxley Road site – the family home of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew – as a national monument.
If preserved and acquired, the site will be converted into a public space, with one possible outcome being a heritage park.
To respect Mr Lee’s wishes, all traces of his and his family’s private living spaces will be removed from the buildings, authorities said.
The site is closely associated with key events in Singapore’s history. The basement dining room hosted meetings that led to the formation of the People’s Action Party.
Mr Lee Kuan Yew had on several occasions publicly expressed his wish for the house to be demolished after his death.
In his final will executed in 2013, Mr Lee said he wanted the house demolished, or if that were not possible, closed to everyone except family and descendants.
