Introduction to the Tap Fire House: The Tap Fire House, now the Yangshupu Gas Plant, was planned to be built in 1932 and completed and put into operation in 1934. It was the first gas plant in China and later became the largest gas plant in the Far East. The existing old building office building in the factory is in the modern style, with a waistline between the facade floors, yellow brick walls, corner stones, and a partial pediment decoration on the north facade. It has a brick-concrete structure with a total of three floors and a construction area of ​​1,200 square meters. square meters. The high-end residential building is located to the north of the office building. Its style is similar to that of the office building. It has a brick-concrete structure with three floors and a construction area of ​​about 800 square meters. It is currently used as a factory office building. The largest gas holder in the factory is the earliest existing gas holder in Shanghai. It was designed and built by British businessmen in the 1930s. It is welded with more than 10,000 rivets and can store 20,000 cubic meters of gas capacity. On September 23, 1999, it was announced as "Shanghai's Excellent Modern Architecture" by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.

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