soon after the founding of singapore by stamford raffles in 1819, people from other trading centres in asia including eurasians came to singapore. wealthy eurasians set up home along waterloo street and queen street in the area between bras basah road and middle road, not far from today's singapore management university. the types of houses that they lived in included shophouses, two-storey houses, terrace houses and bungalows. these were typically owned by well-to-do merchants and traders. the houses on queen street also consisted of shophouses that were occupied by non-eurasian coolies. the living conditions in these shophouses were poor but at least the coolies could live close to where they worked. these houses on queen street were owned by the more well-to-do eurasians. nearby were catholic schools like st joseph's institution and the convent of the holy infant jesus as well as other well-known schools that used to be located in the vicinity. a number of buildings and churches of the period in the vicinity still stand today. today, few eurasians can be found residing in the waterloo street and queen street area.