Early George Town, Penang
Bishop Street, c. 1910, showing the modest, first-generation brick shophouses in the commercial part of the town.
The earliest British influence on Malaysian architecture can be traced to the buildings of George Town, a trading post of the East India Company, established in 1786. Starting with the construction of Fort Cornwallis at the tip of the northeastern cape of Penang Island, the colonial town spread west and south towards the central range, eventually becoming home to what is today Malaysia's largest collection of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings and of its best examples of Anglo-Indian, Chinese and Indian Muslim architecture.
- Information in the full article includes
- Building George Town
- The arrival of Asian immigrants
- Moving to the suburbs