◆◆◆◆ Red House
Speaking of the history of Castle Peak, I have to mention the red house in Castle Peak. 1954, Chairman Mao approved the establishment of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company with the address of Qingshan. The ninth, eighth and seventh blocks of WISCO are the earliest family areas of WISCO. Red background, three-story building, quiet and leisurely community, as if every door and every home has a story.
1956, the eighth, ninth and tenth blocks were built one after another, and this red house became the best residential area in WISCO at that time. All the red houses are arranged in the form of X neighborhood, X doors and X households, and this convention has also been used in the later Hua Gang New Village and Governor's Garden.
With the later development, the number of red houses has reached 16 blocks, with a total area of 500,000 square meters. Red walls, red bricks, red tiles, red roofs and red windows. Every 12 red house is arranged in a rectangle with a green belt in the middle. These red buildings guard the people of WISCO. It is for this reason that this area also has a more unique and direct name-Honggang City.
WISCO, as the first super-large steel complex after the founding of New China, has devoted all his life to industrial construction. As the soul residence of WISCO people, the Red Mansion is also an important basis for witnessing the development of WISCO. Today, the red house looks shabby.
An old man who has lived here for half a century said, "The red house looks beautiful from the outside, but it only looks from the outside." .
On July 20 12, Wuhan officially designated the "red house" of Qingshan as the historical and cultural block of Wuhan 16. Nevertheless, this red house, which has been deposited for more than half a century, still shows its old age after its glory. The increase of family members, the narrow living area and the defects of structural design all make people lament that the house for 50 years really can't live any longer.
The Red Mansion is an important witness to the Soviet Union's aid construction and industrialization development in the middle of last century. It is the record and trace of the whole historical period, and it has extremely high historical value.