Ban Saonak lies in the old quarter north of the Wang River. Onsite information states that the name Ban Sanook, a northern dialect refers to ‘a house of many pillars’; there are in fact 116 pillars. The number of pillars is very interesting. The house was built in 1895 by a Burmese man called Maung Chan Ong (ancestor of the Chantarawirote family). The architectural style of the house is a combination of both Lanna and Burmese style art.