Queen's Building

Queen's Building
Native name Chinese: 皇后行
Queen's Building during the 1890s
Location	Central, Hong Kong
Built	1899
Demolished	1963
Architectural style(s)	Neoclassical; Victorian

Queen's Building (Chinese: 皇后行; pinyin: Huánghòu Háng) was a late 19th-century neoclassical building located in Central, Hong Kong. Named after Queen Victoria, it was situated to the west of Statue Square on Hong Kong Island's waterfront with Victoria Harbour at the time. It was demolished in 1963 and replaced with the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong.

In the 1880s, the colonial government of Hong Kong initiated the Praya Reclamation Scheme to expand the amount of land available in the city. However, the project soon ran into difficulties; it almost went bankrupt in 1893 when finances ran low and inclement weather from typhoons delayed the reclamation. Despite these challenges, the project was finished in 1904, costing more than $3 million. It added a total of 65 acres (26 ha) of land and shifted Hong Kong Island's harbour front from Des Voeux Road to Connaught Road. Half of this new land was set aside constructing new buildings, with the other half utilised for thoroughfares and public spaces. Queen's Building was one of the new structures conceived under this plan and its construction began at around the same time that the reclamation scheme was being carried out. Local architectural firm Leigh & Orange were hired to be the architects and in 1899, the construction was finished. It was one of two arcaded Victorian structures that flanked Statue Square (the old Hong Kong Club Building being the other).