The surviving pre-war buildings of the Taipei Prefecture Second Girls’ High School (臺北州立第二高等女學校), tucked into the grounds of the modern Legislative Yuan compound. The L-shaped brick wing along the western and southern edges was built in 1919, with a reinforced-concrete modernist block added on the northern side in 1935 to complete a three-sided courtyard. After the war the school was repurposed as the seat of the Legislative Yuan; the older structures still stand alongside the post-war additions and are not normally accessible to the public.
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Heritage Status
- City Monument (縣(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)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Education History in Taiwan (臺灣教育史)
- Modernist Architecture in Taiwan (台灣現代主義建築)
Connections
- Legislative Yuan Council Chamber (立法院議場)
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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.