Gwangsan Kim Clan Geunggudang Hall Historic House

This was originally the head house of the Chambongong branch of the Yeongcheon Yi clan. It is said that when Kim Eon-gi (1520–1588) of the Toechon branch of the Gwangsan Kim clan remarried, he came to live in this house, his wife's family home; it was later inherited by his Gwangsan Kim descendants and has remained in the family down to the present. The date of construction is unknown, and the house takes its name from the pen name of Kim Se-hwan (1640–1703), a descendant of Kim Eon-gi. The jeongchim, the main residential quarters, stands to the north of the sarang (men's quarters) courtyard, with a cattle shed to the west of the sarang courtyard, a mill to the west of the jeongchim, and a shrine on higher ground to the east. The jeongchim is built on a square (ㅁ-shaped) plan comprising the sarangchae, the anchae (women's quarters), a wooden-floored hall and kitchens. The shrine is three bays wide and one and a half bays deep, with a hipped-and-gabled roof whose sides form the shape of the character 八. Inside the shrine is a finely carved cabinet housing the ancestral tablets, which is particularly noteworthy. The cattle shed is a straight, three-bay building, and the mill is a somewhat elongated single-bay building; both have had their roofs replaced with slate. These buildings preserve their traditional style relatively well and provide valuable material for the study of Korea's traditional vernacular architecture.

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Where it is

Region

Andong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산