A public assembly hall completed in 1921 within Daxi Park (大溪公園), rebuilt in its current eclectic Western style in 1932. The regent Crown Prince Hirohito’s attendants used it as a rest stop during the 1923 tour of Taiwan (臺灣行啟). After the KMT retreat to Taiwan, the building was converted into a presidential guesthouse because the landscape around Daxi reminded Chiang Kai-shek of his hometown Xikou (溪口) in Zhejiang. Following his death in 1975 it became Daxi Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (大溪蔣公紀念館). Now part of the Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum (大溪木藝生態博物館), which it joined in 2016.
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Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- 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)
- 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.