HISTORY

  The house, allegedly built around 1922 in the Japanese era, was an official principal's residence for Shinchiku Junior High School (Today's National Hsinchu Senior High School). After it was designated as a historic site in 2002, the Hsinchu City government proceeded with extensive renovations in memory of the achievements of Xin Zhiping, a great educator and late principal of Hsinchu Senior High School.

   During the Japanese colonial period, the residence was constructed as a faculty dormitory for the official principals of Shinchiku Junior High School. Three years later (about 1925), the school moved to the present location and the original campus was taken over by the Shinchiku Girl's Senior High School (Today's Hsinchu Girls' Senior High School). The official principal's residence, however, did not move with the Shinchiku Junior High School. In 1945, Xin Zhiping came to Taiwan and was assigned as the principal of the Hsinchu Senior High School.