This mansion was completed in 1925 and became the foreign consulate of the United States in Taiwan under Japanese rule. After the war it was used as the residence of the US Ambassador to Taiwan until 1979 when the US military withdrew from Taiwan. Since 2002 it has been repurposed as an arthouse theater, SPOT (光點台北).
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)
- Initium Media (端傳媒)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- US-ROC Alliance Period (中美共同時期)
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Alexander Synaptic
Curator, Spectral Codex
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.