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<p><b>St. John's Building</b> (<a href="/pages/w/111735208843636">Chinese:</a> 聖約翰大廈) is a <a href="/pages/w/113096505369942">skyscraper</a> in <a href="/pages/w/106074596090027">Central</a> on <a href="/pages/w/107981789225078">Hong Kong Island</a> of <a href="/pages/w/113317605345751">Hong Kong</a>. Owned and operated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongkong_and_Shanghai_Hotels" class="wikipedia">Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels</a>, it is built on the slope beside <a href="/pages/w/138831066135913">Garden Road</a> and <a href="/pages/w/123511951026667">Cotton Tree Drive</a>. The ground floor serves as the <a href="/pages/w/113601688689343">Garden Road terminus</a> of the <a href="/pages/w/137424306279508">Peak Tram</a>.</p><h2>History</h2><p>In 1889 the Garden Road Station for the Peak Tram opened. In 1935 a new lower terminus was built along with the St John's Apartments: a reinforced concrete building, with eight studio flats and a two-bedroom penthouse. In 1964 the apartments were demolished and a modern 14-storey commercial and residential building was erected in its place. This was in turn replaced by the current 21-storey building. This building won the Silver Medal of the <a href="/pages/w/136251393072788">Hong Kong Institute of Architects</a> in 1983.</p>