Located at No. 230, Zhongzheng Road, Zhongzheng District, Keelung City. It was announced as a historic site in Keelung City on December 07, 2006. It is one of the military fortresses in Keelung in the 1930s, and it is currently the few remaining Japanese-style dormitories.
The building was used from the beginning, circulating between the private house and expropriation
The house was built in 1931 and was originally the home of Ryushui Weisuke, the president of the "Ryusui Bus Society" during the Japanese Occupation. In 1945, the Japanese army was defeated. After the National Government took over, this building was used as the residence of the fortress commander, replacing the former residence of the chicken coop fortress commander, which was originally located on the top of the "Major General Mountain" where the ancient house of Xu Zisang was located and was destroyed by the Allied forces.
After the family members of the last commander of the Keelung Fortress Headquarters moved away, they lived under the surname Li (as a school teacher) for 25 years (hence the name "Li's House"). By 1998, the Ministry of National Defense proposed to demolish it. And move out.
The Japanese mansion facing the crisis of being demolished was saved from the fate of being demolished after the literary and historical workers in Keelung called for rescue. The cultural and historical workers also established the "Chicken Coop Culture and History Association" in March 2001 and used it as an office. It was designated as a historic site in Keelung in 2006.
The historic site building and land were allocated in February 2016 and taken over by the Keelung City Cultural Bureau. (The original management agency was the Army Command of the Ministry of National Defense and the State-owned Property Administration of the Ministry of Finance)
Japanese-style wooden mansion combined with earthenware and 1930s popular style
The residence of the commander of the Keelung Fortress is a building with a Japanese-style wooden structure combined with the characteristics of "Dokuzo" (heavy soil walls, small and few windows). The building materials used have the excellent quality of the Japanese rule; scale and space It is different from the compact layout and taste of general public Japanese dormitories.
Stepping up from the entrance of Zhongzheng Road, you can find the railings and walls along both sides of the stairs, all of which are decorated with stone washes and geometric shapes that were popular in the middle and late periods of Japanese occupation. After passing through the gate and the elegant Japanese garden, you can step into the entrance. The shaping of a series of entrance situations fully demonstrates the Japanese people's spiritual view of focusing on artistic conception and Zen Tao.
The biggest feature of this building is that it has a complete rain shower wall, and retains the most traditional niches in the Japanese-style house, as well as push-in (Japanese-style wall cabinets), sky bags (small drawers on the wall) and other equipment. The movable splint above can still lead to the structural space of the roof, retaining the original route of roof maintenance.
East Coast Shawan Emerging Cultural Base
Starting from November 2018, the Keelung City Cultural Bureau, with the support of the project funding support of the "Great Keelung Historical Scene Reproduction Integration Project", has initiated the restoration project of the official residence of the Keelung Fortress Headquarters, a municipal historical site, and will be completed in 2020. The restored site will become a new cultural, leisure and creative base of Keelung City where art groups can enter and curate in the future.
Located at No. 230, Zhongzheng Road, Zhongzheng District, Keelung City. It was announced as a historic site in Keelung City on December 07, 2006. It is one of the military fortresses in Keelung in the 1930s, and it is currently the few remaining Japanese-style dormitories.
The building was used from the beginning, circulating between the private house and expropriation
The house was built in 1931 and was originally the home of Ryushui Weisuke, the president of the "Ryusui Bus Society" during the Japanese Occupation. In 1945, the Japanese army was defeated. After the National Government took over, this building was used as the residence of the fortress commander, replacing the former residence of the chicken coop fortress commander, which was originally located on the top of the "Major General Mountain" where the ancient house of Xu Zisang was located and was destroyed by the Allied forces.
After the family members of the last commander of the Keelung Fortress Headquarters moved away, they lived under the surname Li (as a school teacher) for 25 years (hence the name "Li's House"). By 1998, the Ministry of National Defense proposed to demolish it. And move out.
The Japanese mansion facing the crisis of being demolished was saved from the fate of being demolished after the literary and historical workers in Keelung called for rescue. The cultural and historical workers also established the "Chicken Coop Culture and History Association" in March 2001 and used it as an office. It was designated as a historic site in Keelung in 2006.
The historic site building and land were allocated in February 2016 and taken over by the Keelung City Cultural Bureau. (The original management agency was the Army Command of the Ministry of National Defense and the State-owned Property Administration of the Ministry of Finance)
Japanese-style wooden mansion combined with earthenware and 1930s popular style
The residence of the commander of the Keelung Fortress is a building with a Japanese-style wooden structure combined with the characteristics of "Dokuzo" (heavy soil walls, small and few windows). The building materials used have the excellent quality of the Japanese rule; scale and space It is different from the compact layout and taste of general public Japanese dormitories.
Stepping up from the entrance of Zhongzheng Road, you can find the railings and walls along both sides of the stairs, all of which are decorated with stone washes and geometric shapes that were popular in the middle and late periods of Japanese occupation. After passing through the gate and the elegant Japanese garden, you can step into the entrance. The shaping of a series of entrance situations fully demonstrates the Japanese people's spiritual view of focusing on artistic conception and Zen Tao.
The biggest feature of this building is that it has a complete rain shower wall, and retains the most traditional niches in the Japanese-style house, as well as push-in (Japanese-style wall cabinets), sky bags (small drawers on the wall) and other equipment. The movable splint above can still lead to the structural space of the roof, retaining the original route of roof maintenance.
East Coast Shawan Emerging Cultural Base
Starting from November 2018, the Keelung City Cultural Bureau, with the support of the project funding support of the "Great Keelung Historical Scene Reproduction Integration Project", has initiated the restoration project of the official residence of the Keelung Fortress Headquarters, a municipal historical site, and will be completed in 2020. The restored site will become a new cultural, leisure and creative base of Keelung City where art groups can enter and curate in the future.
