Originally established under Governor-General Sakuma Samata (佐久間左馬太) in 1913 to house forestry officials and visiting dignitaries. Known as the Alishan Forestry Club (阿里山林場俱樂部), this is the oldest surviving cypress building on Alishan, having endured a fire that destroyed two other original buildings on this site in the early 1960s. It was renovated in 1965, when the adjacent bachelor dormitory was rebuilt in reinforced concrete, and the entire complex was renamed Alishan Hotel. Room 701 has hosted every ROC president from Chiang Kai-shek to Chen Shui-bian. The original wooden building operates as a local cultural museum, 1913 Alishan Old Stories (1913阿里山舊事所), since 2018. A modern hotel wing was added in 2012.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- KMT Authoritarian Era Taiwan (國民政府時期)
- Forestry in Taiwan (台灣林業)
- Chiang Kai-shek Guesthouses (蔣公行館)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.