Hoh Fuk Tong Centre

Hoh Fuk Tong Centre is located at 28 Castle Peak Road - San Hui, San Hui, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong near Light Rail Hoh Fuk Tong stop. Morrison Building is a declared monument of Hong Kong.
The centre was named after Rev., the first Chinese pastor in Hong Kong.

History

Hoh Fuk Tong Centre was originally built by General Cai Tingkai as his personal villa. The general led the Nineteenth Corps against the Japanese invasion between 1936 and the early 1940s.
The villa was then used for tertiary education by the, founded under the directive of Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu, from 1946 to 1949. After the closure of Ta Teh Institute, the London Missionary Society, now the Council for World Mission, bought the campus and lent it to the Church of Christ in China since 1950.
The London Missionary Society formally transferred the ownership of the compound to the Church at a token fee of one dollar in 1961.
In early 2000s, the owner of the building, Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China, applied to the Buildings Department to demolish all the centre's historical buildings and redevelop the site. "But San School" and "Hoh Fuk Tong College", two buildings adjacent to Hoh Fuk Tong Centre, would also have been torn down.
To protect the historic building from demolition, Morrison House was declared a proposed monument on 11 April 2003; it was later declared as monument on 26 March 2004.

Buildings

The Morrison Building and the Hoh Fuk Tong Centre Building are two of the oldest buildings in the centre.

Morrison Building

Constructed in 1936, Morrison Building was the oldest building in the Hoh Fuk Tong Centre; it was the main building of the Former Dade Institute.

Hoh Fuk Tong Centre Building

Hoh Fuk Tong Centre Building was constructed in the 1940s; it had been used as the girls' dormitory of the Former Dade Institute. It was also known as the "Red House" as it was built of red bricks.