Penghu Reclamation Hall, Former governor residence museum in Magong, Taiwan.
Penghu Reclamation Hall is a colonial-era building in Magong, Taiwan, built in a Japanese style with some European touches. It features octagonal windows, traditional sliding doors, and walls made from a stone quarried on the islands, set within a garden with large old banyan trees.
The building went up in 1935 as the official residence of the Japanese colonial governor of Penghu. After the end of Japanese rule, it served as the working base for local county magistrates before being turned into a museum in 1992.
Inside, the galleries show how people settled and lived on the Penghu Islands, using local objects, photographs, and written accounts. The exhibits focus on everyday life and local literature, giving a sense of what these islands meant to the people who called them home.
The hall sits on Zhiping Road in Magong and can be visited on foot from the city center. Plan enough time to see both the indoor galleries and the garden outside, as both are worth a proper look.
Cat river stone, the material used for the outer walls, is quarried only on the Penghu Islands and is not found anywhere else in Taiwan. This makes the building one of the few structures in the country where the architecture and the local geology are so directly connected.
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