Gyeseong School Maekpeoseungwan Hall

This building was erected in September 1913 by the missionary Reiner, the second principal of Gyeseong School, with funding received from McPherson in the United States. It was designed by the missionary Adams together with Reiner, and the construction work was carried out by Chinese bricklayers and Japanese carpenters. Standing to the north of Gyeseong School's Adams Hall and facing east, it is a two-storey building of red brick, symmetrical about the square tower set at the centre of the main entrance on its façade, with a hipped roof finished in Korean-style tiles. The exterior consists of red-brick walls raised on a foundation of coursed Daegu building stone; horizontal string courses run between the floors, and semicircular arched windows are set into the walls, their sills stepped back in three courses to shed rainwater. Maekpeoseungwan Hall is a building that blends Korean and Western styles, and by allowing this process of stylistic blending to be traced, it holds valuable material for the study of architectural history.

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Where it is

Region

Jung-gu, Daegu

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산