Gyeseong School Adamseugwan Hall

This building, the first Western-style (yangok) school building in the Yeongnam region, was built in 1908 with construction funds provided by the American mission board to Adams, the first missionary in Daegu. Missionary Adams himself designed the building, and construction is said to have been carried out under his supervision by Chinese bricklayers and Japanese carpenters. The window and door fittings, glass, sanitary ware and heating equipment used in the building were brought from the United States, while the stone laid together with the red brick came from the demolished walls of Daegu's town fortress. The exterior is symmetrical left and right around a bell tower projecting at the centre of the front, and the roof is a gabled roof covered with copper tiles. The walls combine red brick with andesite masonry; the lower part of the bell tower has an arcade of semicircular arches on artificial-stone piers, the bell tower's windows are formed with three-centred arches, and the classroom windows have segmental arches. Accordingly, the roof form conveys traditional Korean elements while the wall composition creates a Western Gothic atmosphere. Beyond its historical significance as a Western-style school building, it illustrates well the history of Protestantism in Daegu and the architectural conditions of the time, and it is valued as an important building for the study of architectural history, particularly for its eclectic blending of Korean and Western elements, its exterior composition and its brickwork technique.

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Where it is

Region

Jung-gu, Daegu

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산