Former residence of Wang Boqun

Former residence of Wang Boqun

Wang Boqun's former residence in Shanghai is located at No. 31, Lane 1136, Yuyuan Road, Changning District. The building was completed in 1934. It is an Italian Gothic castle building, covering an area of 10.78 mu, with a main building area of 2158.8 square meters. It is a four story reinforced concrete structure, with 32 halls and rooms of various sizes. The passages inside the building are circuitous and connected up and down. The rooms and guest halls are decorated with traditional oriental art, and the interior is equipped with painted murals, and even the walls The door and window handles are all made of red copper, and the plum blossom window bars are cast in the air.

Wang Boqun is a native of Xingyi, Guizhou Province. As an early progressive, he once served as president of Daxia University and Jiaotong University. He has three former residences in Xingyi, Guiyang and Shanghai.

In 1960, the Changning District Party committee of Shanghai decided to build the Changning District Children's palace in Wang Boqun's former residence, and to open it up as a tourist unit for Shanghai.

Now it is an excellent modern architecture and a key cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai.

General situation

Shanghai, Guiyang and Xingyi have their own "former residences of Wang Boqun". For Mr. Wang Boqun, these three residences correspond to the three stages of his life respectively. Before he died, he followed Dr. Sun Yat Sen to join the revolution and protect the country, became the elder of the alliance, and prospered the Southwest with Hua Zhihong and other business tycoons in Guizhou. In the latter half of his life, he devoted himself to education and saving the country, and took charge of "Oriental Columbia University" Wang Boqun's former residence in Shanghai was completed in 1934. It is an Italian Gothic castle building, covering an area of 10.78 mu, with a main building area of 2158.8 square meters. It is a four story reinforced concrete structure. There are 32 large and small halls. The passageways inside the building are circuitous and connect up and down. The rooms and guest halls are decorated with traditional oriental art, and the interior is equipped with painted murals, doors and windows The handle is also made of red copper, and the plum blossom window bar is cast in the air. The facade is symmetrical, the North facade and both sides are European castle style, and the window top is four pointed. Formally speaking, it belongs to the British Gothic style of Victorian era. The main building is divided into three parts: the middle, the East and the West. To the south of the main building, there is a garden lawn of 1.3 hectares. The garden is lush with green trees and grass. There are pools, bridges, rockeries and flower beds. The flowers in the garden are blooming all the year round.

The front part of the middle part protrudes in an arc shape, and the East and west parts are symmetrically arranged into a 45 ° angle, which is full of changes.

The eastern part of the building is larger than the western part. There is a separate staircase connecting with the central passage, but there is a door. It is an independent part after closing. The front middle part has the outdoor staircase, may ascend the staircase directly from the outside to the second floor big living room, is very imposing.

There are corridors in front of the second and third floors in the middle, which are reasonably arranged. Bedrooms and study rooms are mostly on the second floor. Teak is used to protect the walls around the room. The outer walls and walls are made of brown cement bricks, which looks simple and elegant. The main part of the roof is four slope top, with tiger windows on the front, and gables as roof decoration.

Under the Ministry of escape a circle of balcony, Romanesque railings, gorgeous and lyric. In front of the house is a big garden, 130 meters long and 100 meters wide, with a large area of grassland, and camphor, cedar, Magnolia, etc. planted on the side.

Historical evolution

When the Anti Japanese war broke out in 1937, Wang Boqun moved to Guiyang with Daxia University. After he left Shanghai, the building was managed by Bao Junjian, uncle Bao Zhining.

In 1939 (28 years of the Republic of China), it became the guest house of the military unification organization of the national government. In 1946, Bao Zhining returned to Shanghai and rented part of the house to the cultural propaganda office of the British Consulate in Shanghai.

At the beginning of 1949, it was taken over by the East China military and political Commission of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, where the CPC Changning District Committee and the District Cultural Bureau were located.

In 1960, the Changning District Committee of Shanghai decided to use it as the children's home of the District, and established the children's palace of Changning District, which became the cradle of training the next generation and became a tourism unit open to the outside world in Shanghai.

The building is now listed by the Shanghai Municipal People's government as an excellent modern building and a key cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai.

Address: west side of Huguo Road, Nanming District, Guiyang City

Longitude: 106.71693741964

Latitude: 26.574140800575

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