Locations were identified for these three interesting houses, from the albums of the late Carla Chalmers (née Bos).

1. Residence at 9 Route Pichon, photographed in 1922. The house is still standing at No. 3 Lane 9 Fenyang Road 汾阳路9弄3号. PastVu location.



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Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of some locations from the latest hundred:

A residence at 471 Rue Lafayette, which became a site of a murder, in June 1932:

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This is Part Two of the post about the architecture firm Calatroni, Hsieh & Co. Link to Part One.

"How to live in comfort, quietness, with evergreen surroundings, in the heart and best residential district in French Concession. The last word in modernism, thus eliminating complaints from conservative housewives." (Did anyone proofread this?)


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