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The house covers an area of 110 sq.m
with brick walls and a pantile roof. It is decorated with two
dragons flanking a moon and flying dragons encrusted with shards
of pottery. The interior has three sections and there are two
leantos, the rear one of which is 2.4 m wide and 2.7 m long. It
has four rows of Jack tree wood pillars, each of which has six
pillars from 2.5 to 4.5 m high. The pillars against the
walls are decorated with pumpkin shapes. At the two sides, the
roof beams and decorated with a dragon's head and the tie beams of
the gable are carved with a dragon's head and designs of floating
clouds, daisies and peonies reflecting their artistic value.
In the resistance war against the
French, Tuy Loan communal house was the place where the local
people and those in the neighboring villages of Bo Ban and Cam
Toai held a demonstration and usurped the power of the district
chief of Hoa Vang in August 1945.
In the anti-American war (1954-1975)
the puppet government of Ngo Dinh Diem made this house a place for
betraying and executing communist. Accordingly it was the place
where the local people rose to oppose the Americans and the Diem's
government.
On 4 January 1999 the communal house
was recognized as a historical and cultural relic by the Ministry
of Culture and Communication.
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