Story of Red House-Ximen

Back to Renaissance of glamorous red buildings

[index][Renaissance of glamorous red buildings][The Red House in Ximen]
[Story of Red House]

1. Legend of the Red House

The Red House, red buildings of Jianguo High School and red buildings of National Taiwan University Hospital were built by the same Japanese architect. During the World War II, this are was bombed. But fortunately, it didn’t damage the main part of the building. This neighborhood has been a business and recreational center after World War II. Lots of movie theaters are located in this area.

2. Second floor: Red House Theater

Because this is a historical building, we couldn’t make lots of fixing and changing inside the building. This room was originally a store selling goods, but later changed into a theater. The ceiling was made of special methods. At that time, it was a very special method.

3. Stories from early day appliances

In closets of the Red House, there are many interesting appliances that were used in the old days.

1. Typewriters: They display the old typewriters as well as aged typewriter with tens of thousands of Chinese characters on it.

2. Business registration certificate: After the Red Housed turned into a market place, they applied a system of making registration of your stand and offering you a plate with your stand number on it. Thus, everyone who did business there would have to pay tax to government.

Scripts excerpted from the introduction of tour guide, Ms. Pong and revised by Pei-Yu Chen, Pin- Fan Lai.

[index][Stories of historical buildings] [Renaissance of glamorous red buildings] [Stories of DaDaoCheng]
[Stories of Zhongshan North Road] [Stories of Jiancheng Circle] [Fellowship of time-traveling cool kids]

juchen@mail.zhps.tp.edu.tw