Small Western-style buildings in Tianjin's Five Great Avenues

　　The "Five Great Avenues" area is where Tianjin’s most renowned residences and mansions are concentrated. Visiting the "Five Great Avenues" and seeing Tianjin's "small Western-style buildings" is actually a fun journey through an architectural art gallery. Known as the "Exposition of International Architecture," this area is famous for its abundance of small Western-style buildings, well-preserved structures, diverse architectural styles, and the display of cultural collisions and integration between East and West. With a total floor area exceeding 990,000 square meters, it gathers more than 230 buildings in various architectural styles from countries such as Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain, as well as over 50 famous residences. These architectural works are richly diverse in form, including Renaissance, Greek, Gothic, Romantic, Eclectic, and Sino-Western fusion styles, forming a kind of frozen art.

　　Race Course Road is the earliest built, widest, and longest road in the Five Great Avenues area. The small Western-style building at No. 121 Race Course Road was originally the residence of British scholar and expatriate Daventry, hence called the "Daventry Building." This typical...

　　Tianjin Heping District