An old courtyard home or sanheyuan dating back to 1910 and a red brick mansion built in a Japanese-Western fusion style just next door. This residence was established by a branch of the Liu family originating in the Raoping (饒平) area of Chaozhou (潮州) and is still in use. The mansion next door was a later addition, possibly dating to the 1920s, and intermittently rented to various restaurants and cafés in recent years. Both buildings were separately listed as heritage sites in 2024 and await restoration.
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Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Recorded On
Links
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
- Taiwan Religious Cultural Map (臺灣宗教文化地圖)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Sanheyuan in Taiwan (台灣三合院)
- Minyang Fusion Architecture (閩洋折衷式樣建築)
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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.