A block of wooden dormitories in Douliu, Yunlin. It was originally built to provide staff housing for Tōnan Sangyō Kabushiki Kaisha (圖南產業株式會社), a Mitsubishi spinoff that cultivated tung, pine, and coffee on nearby Hebao Mountain (荷苞山) and operated a coffee processing plant in Douliu during the 1930s. After the war the operation was reorganized as the Yunlin Economic Farm and in 1958 expanded into what was briefly the largest coffee factory in East Asia. The surviving cluster is the last remaining trace of company housing and was registered as a historic building in 2019 as a witness to the development of the Yunlin coffee industry during the Japanese colonial era.
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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)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Agricultural History in Taiwan (台灣農業史)
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