Yilu is located at No. 75, Beishan Road. It is also known as ‘Pan’s Residence’. Yilu was built in the 1930s. It covers an area of more than 2 mu. The building is a two-story, two-bay brick-wood structure with clear water brick walls and pitched flat tiles. Downstairs is a colonnade, and upstairs is a terrace. There are eight spacious rooms inside the building with wooden floors and walls. The building area is nearly 300 square meters.
Outside the building are ancient and famous trees, rockery and fish ponds. There is one ancient camphor tree, four Japanese larches. The catalpa tree is already 210 years old. There are also many pine trees, juniper cypresses, wintersweets and osmanthus trees. It is like a ‘forest residence’. Behind the house is a cliff. In order to retain mountain springs, a large pool is also built. It is said that the owner of Yilu is the villa by the West Lake of Pan Zhiquan, a wealthy businessman in Shanghai. The Pan family is a comprador of Jardine Matheson in Shanghai. They are wealthy and have extensive properties. There are his Western-style houses and villas in Shanghai, Moganshan, Hangzhou and Tianmushan. His Yilu by the West Lake can still find the stone tablets of ‘Yilu’ and ‘Pan’s boundary’. Only in the widening of Beishan Road in previous years, part of the garden was demolished. The fence retreated several meters into the yard, making some physical objects carrying historical information such as boundary markers scattered, which is a pity. After liberation, Yilu was nationalized.Yilu
Yilu is located at No. 75, Beishan Road. It is also known as ‘Pan’s Residence’. Yilu was built in the […]
