Xinmin Evening News (special correspondent Long Gang reporter Yuan Wei) was built in 1925 as an excellent historical building in Shanghai, the famous Canton-style Lane - Lane 1953, North Sichuan Road, Yong'an Li ushered in the largest renovation in the history of 97 years. The reporter learned from Hongkou District today that in recent years, the district has continuously increased the repair of historical protection buildings, completing the repair of 118,500 square meters of historical protection buildings last year, and planning to complete the repair of historical protection buildings of about 120,000 square meters this year. This time, the repair of Yong'anli is carried out in conjunction with the "Beautiful Home" project, and the historical information carried by the historical building will be preserved to the greatest extent, its historical appearance will be restored, and the original spatial pattern will be maintained.
Pictured: Construction workers are repairing the building Longgang / Photo (the same below)
The reporter saw in the lane today that the scaffolding of some houses has been set up, and workers are repairing the houses. There are 155 residential buildings in Yong'anli, North Sichuan Road, No. 39-155 was built in 1925, No. 1-38 was built in 1945, with a construction area of about 21,000 square meters, brick and wood structure three-storey houses, single-bay continuous shikumen, with classical British and Spanish architectural styles. Yong'an Li was funded by Guo Shi, the owner of Yong'an Company at the time, for the middle and senior employees of his company. Guo was a Guangdong native, and most of the staff used were Cantonese, and Hongkou was the main gathering place for Cantonese people in Shanghai at that time, so Guo chose this place as a staff dormitory and named it Yong'anli.
Pictured: The Yong'anli building has been scaffolded
Yong'an Li is also a red lane, which is a secret location for Comrade Zhou Enlai's early revolutionary activities in Shanghai (Zhou Enlai's aunt's house). Between 1927 and 1931, Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao and others often came here and lived here. In 1931, after the arrest of Gu Shunzhang, who was in charge of intelligence protection in the party at the time, he defected, and the central organs of the party were seriously damaged, and Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao knocked on the door in the middle of the night dressed as merchants, and finally transferred from here to the Soviet area. According to the "Historical Sites of the Early Communist Party of China in Shanghai" jointly edited by the Party History Research Office of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics in 2013, Huang Jiuran, who was working in the editorial office of the central organ of the CPC Central Committee, "Bolshevik", was ordered to establish a central organ for meeting and liaison here, where the central leading comrades read and handled documents, and Zhou Enlai, Luo Dengxian, Li Weihan, and others all met here to discuss work. No. 143 Yong'an Li is the birthplace of "Oriental Dance Goddess" artist Chen Ailian.
Picture: Yong'anli repair plan
It is understood that after years of use, the indoor and outdoor walls, roofs, doors and windows, indoor stairs, decorative lines and feet have suffered different degrees of damage. Some building façade paints are peeled off by the damp air drum, and local stains cover the moss; the original cement mortar surface layer of the flat layer wall is partially damaged, and the surface sand cracks; the original sundeck waterproof layer is aging, resulting in water seepage from the sundeck. Under the premise of eliminating the hidden dangers of building safety, this renovation refers to historical data, demolishes illegal construction, and focuses on improving public parts and kitchen and bathroom spaces to adapt them to the needs of modern living space. Update pipelines and facilities to improve residents' comfort while protecting the appearance of historic buildings. At the same time, part of the roof, wall, doors and windows and interior repairs.
According to the relevant person in charge, try to retain the original materials, structure and technology, and try to maintain and restore the original architectural style in terms of building image, scale, proportion, material color, texture, characteristics, construction technology and detailed technical treatment. In accordance with the principle of "rational use, utilization obeys protection", the repair will organically combine the preservation of historical architectural features with the new requirements of adapting to modern life, so as to achieve effective protection, rational use and scientific management.