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Completed in 1931, this Art Deco police headquarters was designed by Umezawa Sutejiro (梅澤捨次郎) of the Tainan Prefecture engineering division. Its exterior uses the same thirteen-groove unglazed face brick (十三溝面磚) as Hayashi Department Store and the Tainan Weather Observatory, originally a natural clay color but painted red in the 1970s to match police branding and later restored. The site previously held the Qing dynasty era Longwang Temple (龍王廟). It continued as the city police bureau until 2010, after which it was converted into Tainan Art Museum Building 1 (臺南市美術館一館), opening in 2018.
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Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
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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)
- Police History in Taiwan (台灣警察歷史)
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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.