 At the end of the road, it is a conservation area of several shophouses and a three-story Victorian style school building, which was the former site of Fairfield Methodist Girls' School.In the Tanjong Pagar area of the road, it is home to rows of conserved shophouses for various purposes.The road was formerly known as Salat Road (Silat or Selat), the Malay term for "straits" or "Ei Lin".