The Lis’ Garden

Located at No.63 Gaoan Road, the garden residence of the Mediterranean style was designed by Leonard, Veysseyre & Kruze and built in 1930. The south facade has a loggia on the first floor, with circular arch-shaped doorways. Entrance porch pillars are round on the lower part and square on the upper part. Above is a terrace equipped with scale hollowed fences. It has red-tile multi-pitch roofs, red-brick dry outer walls at the bottom, offwhite cement sgraffito walls above, square windows and arch windows. The building was originally the private residence of Ningbo merchant Li Shuxiong, a giant of the textile industry. It is now used by the Activity Center for Old Cadres of Shanghai Construction and Communications Party Committee. The Lis’ Garden was announced by Xuhui District People's Government as Cultural Relic Preservation Unit of Xuhui District on January 5, 2004, and announced by Shanghai Municipal People's Government as Shanghai Municipality Outstanding Heritage Architecture on October 31, 2005.