Built around 1917 as one of the official dormitories for Taitung Prefecture, now Taitung, this Japanese wooden building was relocated to its present site around 1933. As a third-class senior official’s dormitory, it housed the police superintendent (警視) heading the prefecture’s police affairs section during the Japanese colonial era, a post roughly equivalent to today’s county police chief, and it continued in that role after the war. It was registered as a historic building in 2016, with restoration beginning in 2023.
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Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- 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)
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