The Merde­ka Build­ing was built in 1895, but com­plete­ly refur­bished in 1920 to a design by Dutch archi­tect Charles P. Wolff Schoe­mak­er, as a club house for the Con­cor­dia Soci­ety of rich colo­nials. The build­ing was ren­o­vat­ed in 1940 by A.F. Aal­bers, the arc