Astor House, Shanghai
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Astor House is a 5 story building in Shanghai. The neo-classic Baroque structure was built in 1846 as Richard's Hotel and Restaurant, it was renamed Astor House in 1857. Famous people such as the American Civil War general and later President Ulysses S. Grant, physicist Albert Einstein, ragtime composer and musician Scott Joplin, philosopher Bertrand Russell and silent film comedian Charlie Chaplin have stayed at this hotel over the years. It was the first building in China to introduce electric lighting. It later served as the first home of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (1990) and now operates as the Pujiang Hotel.
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