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Built in 1938 as staff dormitories for the district office (郡役所) of the newly formed Guanshan District, housing the district chief (郡守) along with the head of general affairs. They stood in the new administrative area of town. After the war the ROC government retained the buildings as dormitories for the Guanshan Township Office; only two single-storey wooden structures from the Japanese colonial era survive today, roofed in Japanese tile and clad in wooden weatherboard. Designated a historic building in 2009, the better-preserved of the pair underwent a government-funded restoration in early 2024.
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Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Recorded On
Links
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Central News Agency (中央通訊社)
- 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)
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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.