Longchang apartment

Longchang apartment was built in the 1920s and 1930s. It is said that it was designed by the British. It was originally known as Glenn road patrol house. It is the office location of the patrol house in the public concession. The iron windows set up for prisoners at that time are now widely used. After liberation, the south side of the patrol house became the office of the public security branch of Yangpu District, while Longchang apartment became the dormitory of the staff of the public security branch. Later, many people began to live in it. Most of them are office workers or businessmen in the vicinity. Because of their cheap rent, superior geographical location and convenient transportation, they have moved here and maintained about 250 households. Due to its unique historical function and value, Shanghai Longchang apartment was classified as an immovable cultural relic in 2004.

Longchang apartment

Longchang apartment is located at 362 Longchang Road, Shanghai (near Pingliang Road, Longchang Road Station of rail transit line 12). It was built in 1920s and 1930s.

brief introduction

No. 362, Longchang Road, Shanghai (near Pingliang Road, Longchang Road Station of rail transit line 12), also known as Longchang apartment. The whole apartment is like a square tube building like an ancient Roman Colosseum, with a spacious courtyard in the middle, like a large square, surrounded by five storey buildings with gray soil around, just like a "Besieged City". Standing in the courtyard looking up, it looks like a frog sitting in a well watching the sky.

Netizens ridiculed the copy of zhulongchengzhai in Kung Fu.

There were two elevators in Longchang apartment, which was very few in China at that time. It used to be the first place to use gas and tap water in Shanghai and even in China.

history

Longchang apartment was built in the 1920s and 1930s. It is said that it was designed by the British. It was originally known as Glenn road patrol house. It is the office location of the patrol house in the public concession. The iron windows set up for prisoners at that time are now widely used. After liberation, the south side of the patrol house became the office of the public security branch of Yangpu District, while Longchang apartment became the dormitory of the staff of the public security branch. Later, many people began to live in it. Most of them are office workers or businessmen in the vicinity. Because of their cheap rent, superior geographical location and convenient transportation, they have moved here and maintained about 250 households. Due to its unique historical function and value, Shanghai Longchang apartment was classified as an immovable cultural relic in 2004. Shanghai's cultural relics administration said it would pay more attention to it and move its residents to take more effective measures to better protect it.

structure

In the structure of Longchang apartment, the double rows of stairs with a width of more than two meters are the most proud of the residents in the building, also known as "escalators", standing majestically on the north and south sides of the compound. Each staircase is divided into two passageways by a concrete base. The two escalators built on the north and south sides are called "white escalators", which are spacious and bright at night; the two escalators in the East and West are called "black escalators", which are narrow and have no lighting. Each floor is connected by a long corridor, just like a few serpentine dragons. Inside the stairs are caged homes of different sizes. The space between the houses is very small and densely arranged. With the increasing population, almost every family moved their kitchens to the corridor and built more houses in the corridor to increase the housing area and deduce the living condition of Shanghai's snail house.

Another more typical feature is the clothes drying poles in the apartment, which are scattered all over the yard. Bamboo poles of different sizes and lengths are stretched out in the small square, adjacent floors, and even between houses, and are covered with beds and clothes. They are intricate and can be seen everywhere in the whole courtyard. The parking lot and clothes rack formed by many cars placed around the yard occupy most of the yard, but the yard still becomes a place for people to chat in their spare time and a paradise for children to run and play. Some old people in their old business have become a scene in the apartment. For example, some local special snacks made by the well-made pastry masters are not greasy, sweet and delicious. There are also barbers who keep the old taste and skills. The haircut is still the "small flat head" of decades ago, which is very popular among the old people in the hospital.

Address: 362 Longchang Road, Shanghai

Longitude: 121.546195

Latitude: 31.271296