No.64, Yan 'an West Road, the house is of reinforced concrete structure. The lobby on the first floor is a banquet hall and a restaurant, and the whole first floor is a place to entertain guests and enjoy entertainment. There are many bedrooms upstairs, and the decoration and color of each room are unique. There are six in the bathroom and bathroom alone. Almost all the interior and exterior walls and floors are Italian marble, and there is a marble colonnade in Onek style at the entrance; At the top of the hall, the vault is specially built with marble, the floor is paved with marble, and the middle is made of teak, which is the ideal floor for dancing. Even the steps, handrails and railings of stairs are all marble, so people call them "marble houses".

It used to be the history of Kadoorie Mansion, which is little known.

Its original owner, Airy Kadoorie, was a British Jew and was born in business. 500 Hong Kong dollars, and later became a famous industrial boss in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Kadoorie is generous and has a wide range of friends, so this huge palace is often full of guests, otherwise the father and son will feel lonely here too easily. The philosophy of this building is that one person is not as happy as others.

Kadoorie Building originated from a sad story. 19 19, Kadoorie's original house caught fire, and his wife was anxious to let the nanny escape, but she died unfortunately. Sad, Kadoorie took her children back to London to play, and entrusted her friend Brown to build a new house in Shanghai. Brown, on the other hand, is an alcoholic and decadent, and simply leaves things to a foreign company for contracting. Of course, the contractor deliberately luxurious, it took four years to build. When Kadoorie received the fee of 654.38+02,000 taels of silver, it was a big surprise. However, the new house is really beautiful and has become Kadoorie's favorite.

Kadoorie Mansion is magnificent, covering an area of1.4000 square meters, which is outstanding in Shanghai where land is precious. The wide grassland makes people feel broad vision; In the middle is a symmetrical and dignified residence, with a building area of 3,300 square meters alone, and even a floor is added at 1929. As soon as you see it, you will think it is as grand as a palace. It's hard to see a building like a beautiful diamond, but it is. Symmetrical columns support the magnificent skeleton of the palace; The straight and narrow balcony, especially the balcony on the second floor, just acts as a natural corridor, and the faint breath of ladies' skirts should be permeated on it.

Perhaps because of this, becoming a children's palace is the most suitable arrangement. What can comfort Kadoorie is that it has experienced the eternity of marble in the laughter of children-it will be remembered for generations to come.