Lin An Tai Historical House and Museum

This guide to Lin An Tai Historical House in Taipei tells how a Fujianese merchant family's walled courtyard mansion, built around 1783, ended up rebuilt on riverside parkland far from where it first stood. You'll hear about Lin Hui-kung, the merchant who named the house after his home county, the six sons honored with carved dragons over the door, and the 1970s road project that put the house at risk. Listen for the ballast stones underfoot in the front yard, once cargo on ships crossing from the mainland.