Former Tait & Co. Merchant House

A colonnaded nineteenth-century trading house in Anping, built by a British firm to handle Taiwan's export of camphor, sugar, and tea after the port opened to foreign commerce. Its whitewashed arcades and shuttered verandas typify the colonial merchant architecture of the treaty-port era. Now a museum, it traces the story of Anping's international trade and shares its wooded grounds with the neighbouring banyan-clad Anping Tree House. Old ledgers, trade goods, and period photographs illustrate the town's brief prominence as a global port.