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Yin Yu Tang House is a late eighteenth-century Chinese family residence, originally built in Anhui province in the Huizhou region during the Qing dynasty by a prosperous merchant named Huang. Named Hall of Plentiful Shelter, it housed eight generations of the Huang family before standing empty by the mid-1980s. The timber-frame, two-story, five-bay house has a tile roof, sandstone and brick walls, sixteen bedrooms around a central courtyard, and finely carved wooden screens. Relocated with official approval and family endorsement to Salem, Massachusetts, it is a rare full-scale example in North America of historic Chinese vernacular architecture and of the dwelling of an ordinary Chinese family of its era.
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Salem, Massachusetts · United States
