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A stone-walled villa on Yangmingshan built between 1930 and 1940 as a retreat for a Japanese business owner. After the war it briefly housed Jū Zhèng (居正), a senior KMT figure, before being leased to the US Embassy; the first American ambassador to the ROC, Karl Rankin (藍欽), lived here for seven years. The villa was returned to government ownership in 2003 when AIT relinquished its lease, but has since fallen into ruin. It is fenced off and located directly across from a police station.
Warning: this location is abandoned, hazardous, or otherwise neglected and may be unsafe and even dangerous! Exercise appropriate precautions when visiting.
警告：此處已廢棄或長期無人管理，可能存在潛在危險。造訪時請務必提高警覺，並做好相關安全防護措施。
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- Humanities Corner (角落人文)
- Little Pig's Trivia (小豬豬的小事集)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- KMT Authoritarian Era Taiwan (國民政府時期)
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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.