A three-bay timber shophouse on Jingliao Old Street, said to have been built for a Lin family in Lucao, Chiayi, in the 18th century, then dismantled and re-erected on this site in 1910. It was bought soon after by Ruan Qian (阮謙), a practitioner of Chinese medicine whose family had settled in Jingliao in 1875, and it still carries his shop name Jindexing Qianji (金德興謙記) on a plaque of 1925. A raised-beam frame (抬樑式) leaves the interior unusually open beneath a U-shaped attic; earthquakes in 1941, 1964, and 2010 cost the building its swallowtail ridge and several of its wattle-and-daub walls, and it remains a private residence closed to visitors despite designation as a monument in 2005.
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- Status:Private (私有)
- Heritage designation:Municipal Monument (直轄市定古蹟)
- Address:臺南市後壁區墨林村4鄰菁寮191號
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
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- Qing Dynasty Era Taiwan (清治時期台灣)
- Minnan Architecture (閩南建築)
- Shophouses in Taiwan (台灣街屋)
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