The Blue House is a four story tong lau tenement building at 72 to 74A Stone Nullah Lane in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, named for the blue paint on its outer walls. It stands on the site of the former Wah To Hospital, established in the 1870s and demolished in 1920, and was rebuilt as tenement blocks by 1922, later housing a martial arts school and a traditional medicine clinic. The Hong Kong government acquired the building in the 1970s and it was painted blue in 1990; it is now a Grade I historic building that underwent a major renovation in 2015 and 2016. It functions today as a heritage and community site, including the Hong Kong House of Stories and a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, and its revitalization won an architectural heritage award in 2017 and 2018. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountWan Chai District, People's Republic of China 2 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
Sources
1. Blue House (Hong Kong) (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_House_(Hong_Kong), lead definition
The Blue House is a 4-storey balcony-type tenement block located at 72-74A Stone Nullah Lane, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
- Wikipedia "Blue House (Hong Kong)" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Blue House is a four story tong lau tenement building at 72 to 74A Stone Nullah Lane in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, named for the blue paint on its outer walls. It stands on the site of the former Wah To Hospital, established in the 1870s and demolished in 1920, and was rebuilt as tenement blocks by 1922, later housing a martial arts school and a traditional medicine clinic. The Hong Kong government acquired the building in the 1970s and it was painted blue in 1990; it is now a Grade I historic building that underwent a major renovation in 2015 and 2016. It functions today as a heritage and community site, including the Hong Kong House of Stories and a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, and its revitalization won an architectural heritage award in 2017 and 2018.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1922)
completion_date/completed = 1922
View the Source2. Blue House (Hong Kong) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Tong lau)
Wikidata item Q4929255, instance of (P31): tong lau
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Wan Chai District, People's Republic of China
Wikidata item Q4929255, property P131/P17 (location): Wan Chai District, People's Republic of China
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