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The hotel is established in a historical building. In modern Tranquebar, the house was known locally until the 2000s as the “Nadar House”. The exact date of original construction of the building is unknown, but it is estimated that the building is from about 1830. It is constructed with three wings and later a fourth was added to the north towards the garden. Facing the Parade Ground, it was constructed with a protruding central part of the veranda. The height of the building was divided into a lower floor for storing goods and an upper floor for living where the wind could bring a cooling breeze from the sea. Records state that Arabella Mathilda Wright, married in the Zion Church on 7 February 1821 to Danish civil officer Wilhelm Petersen, inherited the building in December 1857 after the demise of her husband. After ten years, she sold the building to Thiru Vellia Nadar, from a prominent distillery family. His descendants maintained the building for 125 years first by renting it to the British Raj, who used it as judge’s house and collector’s residence. In the early 1990s, the house was sold by the Nadar family to the Taj group of hotels. Soon after, the house was taken over by the Neemrana Group of hotels. The sale happened in 2002 and the restoration process began in January 2003. The eight-room heritage hotel, named “Bungalow on the Beach”, was to be opened at the end of 2004 but for the Indian Ocean Tsunami that left the building with some damage. After the repair work was completed, the hotel finally opened three months later. See, Esther Fihl (ed.). The Governor’s Residence in Tranquebar. The House and the Daily Life of its People, 1770-1845. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2017

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