Zhongzheng Second Precinct Police Station

Date CapturedOctober 29th, 2025 at 05:38 UTCCameraDC-S5M2LensLUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6Apertureƒ / 4Shutter Speed1/125 secFocal Length24.0 mmISO100Exposure Value11.0 EVOriginal Size3600 × 2400

Two-storey brick and reinforced concrete building completed in 1954 as the Seventh Precinct of the Taipei Police Department. It replaced an earlier wooden structure on the site, built around 1905 to house medical school staff and later used by the Japanese military police. An eastern three-storey administrative wing was added between 1958 and 1969. The complex served as a police station until 1995. Following advocacy from small theater practitioners, it reopened in 2002 as Guling Street Avantgarde Theater (牯嶺街小劇場), which is often described as Taiwan’s first publicly designated avant-garde performance venue, seating between fifty and seventy. Registered as a Taipei municipal historic building in 2014.