Built alongside Penghu Prefecture Hall (澎湖廳舍) and completed in 1935, this single-storey brick house was home to seven Japanese prefecture chiefs. Its Japanese-Western (和洋折衷) plan pairs Western-style reception and dining rooms with tatami living rooms, including a zashiki (座敷), the formal room for receiving guests, with a tokonoma (床之間), a recessed alcove for displaying a hanging scroll or flowers. Penghu County magistrates lived here until 1992; it was registered as a historic building in 2002 and later restored as Penghu Reclamation Hall (澎湖開拓館).
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- Status:Public (公有)
- Heritage designation:Historic Building (歷史建築)
- Address:澎湖縣馬公市中興里治平路30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)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
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- Penghu Prefecture Hall (澎湖廳舍)
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