Yokohama
Ellisman Mansion
Homes in affluent foreign community
1-77-4 Motomachi
Naka-ku
Yokohama, 231-0861
Nearest Train: Ishikawacho Station-JR Negishi Line
Phone: +81 45 211 1101
Fax: +81 45 211 1101
EmailThe Ellisman Mansion is a house built in 1926 for a wealthy Swiss trader. The house was designed by a famous Czech architect who worked closely with Frank Lloyd Wright in the designing of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. The white clapboard fence, green slate roof, wide chimney and pull windows are all characteristic of the homes in the affluent foreign community of Yamate. The house was built after the great quake, in the sunset of Yamate, but the photos on the wall speak volumes of a by-gone era when Yokohama was home to many of the wealthiest shipping, trading and silk merchants in the Orient. Their world came crashing down on that fateful Saturday in 1923, as eighty percent of Motomachi and Yamate went up in flames and the mighty wharves of Yokohama Harbor collapsed into the sea. Come look at the photos in Ellisman Mansion and realize that what we can see and touch today is merely a fragment of what Yokohama was. The Ellisman Mansion is located in Motomachi Park and is open to the public free.
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