Garden houses along a quiet street.
Dongping Road

东平路11号

Spanish architect Abelardo Lafuente designed this 1921 residence for the Rosenfeld family, American Jewish merchants. Designer and client connect this Shanghai house to a wider international network. The main house and street annex underwent different changes. The 2023 account compares drawings and before-and-after photographs, noting the annex’s restoration from drawings. Reconstructed details are not automatically original fabric.

A mansard roof and square dormers cap the house. A curved south loggia with paired Tuscan columns anchors a symmetrical composition, contrasting with neighbouring houses. Read the rhythm of columns, balustrades and openings separately. The garden-facing main elevation differs from the annex seen from the street; photograph direction matters.

东平路9号

Often known as Ailu, the house predates that association. Building began in 1916 for British businessman E. J. Comfort; alterations in 1928 and 1932 shaped the surviving residence. The 1928 work was commissioned through Puyi Realty; R. E. Stewardson was involved in 1932. The 2023 authority record lists school offices. Later occupants should be distinguished from the building’s chronology.

Red flat roof tiles, dormers, pebbledash and imitation-stone quoins define the elevations. Materials distinguish roof, wall, openings and corners. Porch and balcony are stacked, with columns and arches creating shade. Drawings and photographs clarify these layers without resolving every construction campaign.

东平路7号

The housing authority traces the house to 1916 using historic drawings. The often-mentioned 1935 date concerns a later residential phase and should not replace the construction date. Later uses included a theatrical troupe and Peking-opera rehearsal space; the 2023 record identifies conservatory-school practice rooms. Domestic life, performance and music education occupy successive layers.

A sequence of arches, pale balustrades and steep gables defines the south side. Projecting red-brick details mark corners and windows against lighter walls. Steps raise the porch above the garden, creating a threshold to the interior. The published north and south photographs show different faces of the same building.

东平路5号

Built around 1918, the house is attributed in the authority’s drawing-based account to China Realty architect W.S.; the initials are not expanded into an unverified name. In 1924 Percy Tilley designed a billiard-room extension east of the main house. Later alterations mean the building represents several phases of work.

The projecting south veranda has three arches below and five above, with white balustrades against grey walls. It faces the garden of a house south of Dongping Road. Shallow pitched roofs have dormers and short eaves. Walls, arches and balustrades provide restrained detail; the eastern addition makes the overall mass asymmetric.

东平路1号

Begun in 1914, the house first belonged to W. R. Walter of the British waterworks company. Drawings record subsequent alterations; 1929 marks an extension, not the birth of the whole house. The original architect remains unidentified; alteration drawings name Harding Lee Architect. The housing authority recorded restaurant use in 2023, illustrating the house’s later relationship with street life.

Changing volumes, materials and window positions provide depth with restrained ornament. Comparing the north street elevation with the side reveals how the house is assembled. Compare the historic elevation drawing with the restored exterior, focusing on roofs, chimney and openings. Later roads and trees are not evidence of the original setting.

桃江路、汾阳路、岳阳路交会三角地

Russian residents funded the first monument in 1937 for the centenary of Pushkin’s death. It belongs to the cultural memory of a migrant community; Pushkin himself did not live in Shanghai. Destroyed twice during war and later upheaval, the monument was rebuilt in 1947 and 1987. The present bust belongs to the 1987 rebuilding, not the original 1937 sculpture.

A tall narrow plinth lifts the bust above a small triangular garden. Pavement views reveal the relationship between the head, inscriptions and planting. This is a public memorial at a street junction, not a residential courtyard. A continuous location does not mean the plinth and bust remained unchanged across time.