The predecessor of "Old Foreign Firm 19 13" is the British businessman Hutchison Foreign Firm. From 1843, the first foreign firm appeared in Shanghai. By the 1930s, foreign firms were numerous and gathered, which brought up and controlled all the important industries in this city, such as finance and trade, and from then on, created the prosperity of "the first in the Far East" in Shanghai.

Today's "Laoyanghang 19 13" continues the European fashion and British style of the building itself, and the vast leisure area releases creative inspiration. The quintuple waterfront platform with a total area of more than 2000 square meters is stacked from the river bank to the highest part of the building. Entering the interior of the building along various platforms, pushing the door is a spacious space, carefully retaining English steel columns with different styles from a hundred years ago, simple cement columns and the ground. Go through history through the big glass window door with modern flavor, look for ancient marks and taste the passage of time.