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Wu Daotai Mansion (Wu Family Residence) 吴氏宅第Wúshì Zháidì
National heritage site · Yangzhou, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yangzhou
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Wu Daotai Mansion (Wu Family Residence)
A large mansion begun in 1888 for Wu Yinsun, a Qing official who had served as circuit intendant at Ningbo, and laid out after the intendant's office there. Its surviving buildings include a Western-style house and the Cehai Lou library, modelled on Ningbo's Tianyi Pavilion, which once held some 200,000 volumes; the family garden and ancestral hall have gone. After 1949 the compound was used by a hospital, and part of it is shown to visitors as the Wu Daotai Mansion.
How to get to Wu Daotai Mansion (Wu Family Residence)
On Taizhou Road by the old canal in the east of Yangzhou's old city, beside the First People's Hospital; check that it is open before going.
Nearby
- Slender West Lake 瘦西湖 under 10 km
A ribbon of willow-fringed water lined with the pavilions of Qing salt merchants
Also within 20 km: Tomb of Puhaddin 普哈丁墓 (under 10 km), Dongguan Street 东关街 (under 10 km), Wang Xiaoyuan Residence 汪氏小苑 (under 10 km), Jia Salt Merchant Residence & Erfen Mingyue Lou 贾氏盐商住宅 (under 10 km), Xiaopangu Garden 小盘谷 (under 10 km), He Garden 何园 (under 10 km).
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