Three jiaoquan houses in Shanghai

This article on jiaoquan houses 绞圈房子 mentions that three such houses still survive in downtown Shanghai. The article focuses on a house in Zhoupu (two houses, actually). A little search revealed two more of these structures:

1) A courtyard house at Lane 780 Haining Road: 海宁路780弄22-24号 (I've not been there):

2) A residence in the old town, at 80 Aijia Lane 艾家弄80号.

Before I knew anything about jiaoquan houses 绞圈房子 I remember my fascination with the way its three interior courtyards are interlinked by a passage. I would not say this is the only instance of such architecture in the old town, but definitely one of the better preserved and least cluttered.

The history of the building on Aijia Lane is included in my book that is due by the end of the year. For now, here are some photos of the courtyard:

Tags: aijia nong, jiaoquan houses, old town, shanghai, 绞圈房子, 老城厢, 艾家弄

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

This day in history – well, almost (1912)

It was around this time in January, in 1912, that the old wall around Shanghai's Chinese City began to be torn down. Here is a photo published in…
R. I. P. Wangyima Lane 王医马弄 (900s–2019)

Wangyima Lane 王医马弄 neighborhood was the last patch of medieval city fabric in central Shanghai. Nowhere else in the old town – not even in the…
The toads have spoken...

https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/1911206485/ ...and announced a revamp and a facelift. It will not end well for the poor old town... "The…