Building the old Shanghai Municipal Council building, 1917

The old Shanghai Municipal Council building on the corner of Hankow Road & Kiangse Road (Hankou and Jiangxi Roads). It’s a five-story neoclassical building featuring a granite facade, Baroque styling, Ionic columns and arched windows. There’s a large closed courtyard with an entrance/exit on the southwest corner. The architect was the SMC’s then in-house architect Robert Charles Turner. Here is a picture of the building under construction in 1917 and then shortly after it was completed and opened in the early 1920s.