On June 4, 1928, a Japanese bomb at Huanggutun shattered a train and abruptly ended the life of Fengtian warlord Wu Junsheng. Back at No. 22 Xiaoheyan Road in Shenyang, his architectural vision froze in time. The south-facing mansion was planned as a towering three-story Western structure with a deep basement. The original builders completed only the first floor before their patron's assassination.

Today, heavy blue-brick walls and cold iron gates guard this fusion of eras. Visitors walking the original asphalt approach pass weathered horse-mounting stones—silent markers of the cavalryman who ruled Heilongjiang as military and civil governor. In the eastern courtyard, a traditional Siheyuan layout survives. The hands of Republic-era artisans remain visible in the highly refined wood carvings lining the interior and exterior corridors. You can trace the precise gouges and smooth finishes left by their chisels. To the south, a sprawling garden breathes through dense vegetation, where rough rubble-stone rockeries and quiet pavilions sit behind an iron fence anchored by stone pillars.

After the liberation of Shenyang, new hands reshaped the site. Workers added the current second floor to the main building, adapting the warlord’s unfinished residence into the headquarters for the Dadong District Communist Party Committee. For decades, administrative routines echoed through these historic halls. A 2019 cultural revitalization plan recently cleared out the district offices. The government relocated fourteen agencies to open the space for the Republic of China Culture Tour. The mansion breathes again, offering a direct encounter with the layered stone, carved wood, and forged iron of a turbulent century.