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This lovely tiled-roof stucco bungalow could well be somewhere in California or Florida. Perhaps only in China, however, would it still have a usable well on the street just outside the front door. |
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| The
Spanish Influence |
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This lovely tiled-roof stucco bungalow could well be somewhere in California or Florida. Perhaps only in China, however, would it still have a usable well on the street just outside the front door. |
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This wrought iron staircase and the spiraling columns are in a guest houes, part of a complex of ten Spanish Revival residences built in the thirties on Hungjao Road leading to the airport. This quiet compound, then called Granada Estates, has certainly seen livelier days: it was once occupied by pilots and staff of Claire Chennault's China Air Transport, composed mainly of former pilots of the famed "Flying Tigers"who flew in China during World War II. |
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elegant Spanish style mansion, in the French Concession at the corner of
Rue Lafayette and Rue Massenet, was once occupied by the grandson of
Yuan Shikai, the so-called ”last emperor” of China.
The palm trees and tropical vegetation with in its sheltering walls have now been torn out in order to make a parking lot. The interior of the house has been gutted and it is slated to become a karaoke bar. |
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