Designed by Shirakura Yoshio (白倉好夫) of the Governor-General’s Construction Section and Hatakeyama Kisaburō (畠山喜三郎) of the Taichung Prefecture Civil Engineering Section, this reinforced concrete block in central Taichung was completed in September 1938 and became the new headquarters of Changhua Bank (彰化銀行). The bank was originally founded in Changhua in 1905 but relocated to Taichung in 1910. After the war the bank was reorganized in 1947 as a public-private provincial institution under Lin Xiantang, and the building was designated a municipal monument in June 2015.
Map
Heritage Status
- Municipal Monument (直轄市定古蹟)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
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.