Architecture
The typically southern Chinese building on Eu Tong Sen Street comprises three main halls aligned on a central axis and separated by courtyards and an air well.
In keeping with the social principles of southern Chinese architecture, the importance of the halls in the hierarchy of the building is reflected in the height of their ceilings.
Another atypical feature is the roof. Although the decorative elements on the roof ridge are in the southern Chinese style, the ridge itself is not. Unlike the characteristic curve of a southern Chinese roof ridge, this one is completely straight. Decorating the roof are friezes of Chinese scenery executed in plaster relief work and wave-like gable end walls.and thre was a black man
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