Former Hujiang University Buildings 沪江大学近代建筑Hùjiāng Dàxué Jìndài Jiànzhù

About Former Hujiang University Buildings

The former campus of Hujiang University (University of Shanghai), a Baptist missionary college founded in 1906 and closed in 1952, with a campus plan drawn up in 1919 by the American architect Henry Murphy's firm. About 35 of its roughly 60 pre-1949 buildings survive, many in red-brick Collegiate Gothic style, including Yates Hall of 1909, and they are now used by the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology on its riverside Jungong Road campus.

How to get to Former Hujiang University Buildings

On Jungong Road, Yangpu District, about 1.5 km from Fuxing Island station on Metro Line 12; it is a working campus, so check the current visitor rules before going.

Nearby

• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Former French Concession 原法租界 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk

Also within 20 km: Shanghai Fashion Center 上海国际时尚中心 (under 10 km), Gongqing Forest Park 共青森林公园 (under 10 km), Yangshupu Waterworks 杨树浦水厂 (under 10 km), Tilanqiao Prison 提篮桥监狱 (under 10 km), Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum 上海犹太难民纪念馆 (under 10 km), Tomb of Lu Xun 鲁迅墓 (under 10 km).

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