Address | Hoh Fuk Tong Centre, Castle Peak Road (San Hui Section), Tuen Mun
Year Built | 1936
Monument Rating | Declared Monument
Photo ｜ChanTin Kuen, Wong Wai Kit
During the Kuomintang-Communist civil war in 1946, the Communist Party and the left-wing democrats cooperated to set up a full-time institution of higher education in Hong Kong, named the Ta Teh Institute, for the purpose of settling asylum seekers from Mainland China and to nurture the new generation. The campus was in fact a villa in Tuen Mun Castle Peak Road which was borrowed from the Anti-Japanese General Cai Ting Kai (1936). However, the institution only lasted for two years and four months. Due to political reasons, the Hong Kong Government revoked its registration eligibility on February 23, 1949. Nevertheless, the Ta Teh Institute had educated more than 800 students and had played a vital role in modern Chinese history.
In 1952, the London Missionary Society bought the campus and renamed the former villa (the main building of the Ta Teh Institute) as the "Morrison House". The female dormitory (built in 1940s) was renamed "Hoh Fuk Tong Centre ". At the same time, a number of cottages were built. In 1961, its title was transferred to the Christian Church of China and the site was used as a retreat. Subsequently, a developer proposed to cooperate with the church to rebuild the site, but the Government declared the Morrison House as a statutory monument in 2004 to prevent it from demolition. Now the building has been restored, but the church has made no plan to open it to the public.
