Former Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce Main Building 天津工商学院主楼旧址Tiānjīn Gōngshāng Xuéyuàn Zhǔlóu Jiùzhǐ

About Former Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce Main Building

The main building of the former Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce was built by French Jesuits in the 1920s to a design by the French firm Yonghe, and is a three-storey brick building with a mansard roof, rusticated stonework and large clock faces on its front and back gables. Its west wing holds a small chapel, and the entrance hall has portraits of Matteo Ricci and Ferdinand Verbiest and a large world map by Verbiest. The site passed to a foreign-languages institute in 1970, now Tianjin Foreign Studies University, and the building is still the university's main building.

How to get to Former Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce Main Building

On Machang Dao in Hexi District, about 3.2 km south of Tianjin Railway Station; it is a working university building whose front faces Machang Dao across a lawn, so visitors usually see only the exterior; check whether the campus is open before going.

Nearby

• Five Great Avenues 五大道 under 10 km
  Leafy lanes of century-old villas from Tianjin's treaty-port days

Also within 20 km: Hoangho Paiho Museum (Beijiang Museum) 北疆博物院 (under 10 km), Astor House Hotel 利顺德饭店 (under 10 km), Former French Municipal Board, Tianjin 法国公议局旧址 (under 10 km), Quanyechang Department Store 劝业场 (under 10 km), Former Yien Yieh Commercial Bank, Tianjin 盐业银行旧址 (under 10 km), Zhang Garden 张园 (under 10 km).

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