MAISON ACME｜Yuanshan Villa. During the Japanese colonial era, tea merchant Chen Chao-chun, who operated Yongyu Hao in Dadaocheng, Taipei, built a British-style mansion in the Yuanshan area along the Keelung River in Taipei City in 1913. During the Japanese colonial era, tea merchant Chen Chao-chun, who operated Yongyu Hao in Dadaocheng, Taipei, built a British Tudor-style mansion in the Yuanshan area along the Keelung River in Taipei City in 1913. Completed in 1914, it served as a venue for him to entertain Taiwanese gentry, political dignitaries, and tea merchants from various countries, as well as a place for his family to relax, vacation, and gather. Chen Chao-chun, who once served as the president of the Taipei Tea Merchant Association, was a prominent figure in Taiwan's burgeoning tea industry at the time. The house was built during the Japanese colonial period, when the government was systematically expanding Taipei's urban area, laying out three tree-lined boulevards around the city, and introducing various European architectural styles, blending and adapting them to establish Taiwan as a political, financial, and academic center. This created a highly complex architectural landscape during that era, under which Chen Chao-chun's house was constructed. After Chen Chao-chun's death in 1923, the house changed hands several times and underwent numerous transformations. After World War II, it served as the residence of Huang Kuo-shu, the former President of the Legislative Yuan. In 1979, it was acquired by the Taipei City Government and temporarily used as the office and storage facility for the Northern District Branch of the Park and Street Light Management Office. In December 1987, it was officially handed over to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum for management, and in 199
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