A police station in the Shekou area of Shengang, Taichung, first established in 1903 on land donated the following year by local gentry, among them Lin Zhenfang (林振芳) of the nearby Shekou Lin Residence. The surviving structure is an amalgam of a hybrid Japanese-Western style constructed in 1913 and a newer reinforced concrete station house built after the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake. For decades after 1982 the old frontage was concealed behind a newer station building. A reconstruction completed in 2024 grafted the restored façade onto a new three-storey block, which displays local history alongside the working police station.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Central News Agency (中央通訊社)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Police History in Taiwan (台灣警察歷史)
- 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake (新竹台中地震)
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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.