Niutiaowan Jisheng Hospital

A two-storey Western-style clinic in the Niutiaowan (牛挑灣) area of Puzi, built in 1928 by Wu Beichu (吳杯初), who returned to his hometown to practice medicine after graduating from the Governor-General’s Taipei Medical College. The building was the first Western-style structure in the area and a local landmark. After Wu’s death in 1965 the hospital fell idle; a large banyan tree took root on the roof, and in 2015 Typhoon Soudelor toppled the tree and brought the building down with it. Registered as a historic building in 2014, it was painstakingly reconstructed from salvaged fragments and completed in 2022, although it now looks very different than it did originally.