A three-storey hybrid Japanese-Western mansion built by Li Mingdao (李明道), heir to the Wandan-based Dingchang (鼎昌號) trading firm, so his daughter Li Chuxue (李初雪) could live within walking distance of Pingtung Girls’ High School. The lower two floors were completed between 1927 and 1932, with stone-washed walls and a classical Western portico. The third floor and rooftop terrace were added between 1945 and 1956. After standing closed for decades the house is being restored by Li’s sixth-generation descendants, who plan to reopen it in mid-2026 as a café and ceramics studio.
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Pingtung Media (屏東好事多)
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.