Hoh Fuk Tong Centre () is located at 28 Castle Peak Road - San Hui,

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near Light Rail Hoh Fuk Tong stop. Morrison Building is a declared monument of Hong Kong. The centre was named after Rev. , the first

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pastor in Hong Kong.Legislative Council Panel on Home Affairs: Declaration of the Morrison Building as a Monument
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History

Hoh Fuk Tong Centre was built by General

Cai Tingkai Cai Tingkai (; 1892–1968) was a Chinese general. Cai was in overall command of the 19th Route Army of the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army and other Chinese forces responsible for holding off the Imperial Japanese Army during th ...

(1892–1968), who led the Nineteenth Corps against the Japanese invasion between 1936 and the early 1940s. The centre was the villa of General Cai from 1936 to 1946. It was used for tertiary education by the , founded under the directive of Chinese leaders

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and

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, from 1946 to 1949. After the closure of Ta Teh Institute, the

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, now the Council for World Mission, bought the campus and lent it to the

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since 1950. The London Missionary Society formally transferred the ownership of the compound to the Church at a token fee of one dollar in 1961. In early 2000s, the

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applied to the Buildings Department to demolish all the centre's historical buildings and redevelop the site. But San School and Hoh Fuk Tong College would also have been torn down. To protect the historic building from demolition, Morrison House was declared a proposed monument on 11 April 2003; it was later declared as monument on 26 March 2004.

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The Morrison Building in Hoh Fuk Tong Centre
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Chapter 1: "Conservation of monuments and historic buildings"
28 March 2013.

Buildings

The Morrison Building and the Hoh Fuk Tong Centrr Building are two of the oldest buildings in the centre.

Morrison Building

Constructed in 1936, Morrison Building was the oldest building in the Hoh Fuk Tong Centre; it was the main building of the Former Dade Institute.

Hoh Fuk Tong Centre Building

Hoh Fuk Tong Centre Building was constructed in the 1940s; it had been used as the girls' dormitory of the Former Dade Institute. It was also known as the "Red House" as it was built of red bricks.

References

External links

Map of Hoh Fuk Tong Centre 福堂樓

Ta Teh Institute

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