By Cheng Ming-hsiang and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNAA 99-year-old hospital on Taipei’s Dihua Street has been named a city heritage site, because of its original facilities from the Japanese colonial era, including a sunlit surgical suite.
A 99-year-old hospital on Taipei’s Dihua Street has been named a city heritage site, because of its original facilities from the Japanese colonial era, including a sunlit surgical suite.
After conducting a review of the property, all 17 members of the Taipei Cultural Assets Review Committee on Monday voted to designate Two Chiangs Hospital (兩江醫院) a cultural asset.
The hospital opened in 1923 on present-day 28 Dihua St Sec 1 in the city’s Dadaocheng (大稻埕) area.
It was named after the two physicians who opened the facility: general practitioner Chiang Ching-chin (江景勤) and surgeon Chiang Li-to (江立托).
The first floor housed the clinic and