Gutzlaff Signal Tower

This signal tower was built in 1907 to replace the wooden original as well as to serve as a meteorological relay station for the tireless Shanghai Jesuits. In the early 1950s it was commandeered as a river-boat police station, and in 1995 the entire edifice was shunted 22.4m to its present location.

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