This building is an Italian Gothic castle building, covering an area of 10.78 mu, with a main building area of 2 158.8 square meters and a cost of 300,000 silver dollars. Four-story reinforced concrete structure, with 32 halls and rooms of different sizes, with circuitous passages in the building and through from top to bottom. Rooms and guest rooms are decorated with traditional oriental art, with painted murals inside. Even the door and window handles are made of copper, and the plum blossom window bars are cast empty. There is a 1.3 hectare garden lawn on the south side of the main building. There are lush trees and lush grass in the park. There are pools, bridges, rockeries and flower beds, and flowers bloom all year round. At that time, it was a rare mansion in Shanghai. The building was designed by Xielong Foreign Firm Liu Shiying and constructed by Xinfengji Construction Factory. Wang Boqun and Bao Zhining got married here on 1935.
He's brother-in-law, Minister of Communications of Nanjing Government, President of Shanghai Building University. When he was in Gongguan University, he fell in love with Bao Zhining, the school flower. Bao Zhining put forward three conditions: 165438+ ten thousand dollars passbook; Second, the wedding should be ostentation and extravagance, and the bride price should be 80 thousand francs; Third, the garden villa. Wang Boqun agreed, but he got a kickback. Bao Zhining's third condition is to entrust the construction of the new construction factory of Nanjing Ministry of Communications Building. However, three years later, when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, Wang Boqun was dismissed for taking bribes in Chongqing and died soon. Later, Bao Zhining got his villa back and rented it to the British Embassy, but he took the rent to settle in new york.