Berrick Hall

Interesting Spanish style mansion

This mansion was built by 1930 for an English merchant BR Berrick. It is the largest Western residence property in Yamate. With a Spanish style, the architect was JH Morgan (who also designed Bluff No...

Free and worth a look

Slightly odd to be walking through an old western (Spanish with a touch of British) house when you know you're in Japan! Some of the display plaques were in English, enough to understand some of the h...

It's a wonderful Western-style building.

Original Text

１Ｆ is a large floor that would have been used as a social place such as dance. ２Ｆ has a room for children, visitors, and landlords, and it was easy to imagine that each room with a bath and toilet was large and was a fairly wealthy family at that time.

New ｺﾛﾅｳｲﾙｽ Priority measures such as prevention of spreading as infection prevention measures are applied during the period [Internal photography is prohibited (repression of people's flow)] [2nd floor tour is not possible (one-way tour) Because ﾙｰﾄ cannot be done)]

Original Text

New ｺﾛﾅｳｲﾙｽ Priority measures such as prevention of spreading as infection prevention measures are applied during the period [No internal photography (Restriction of people's flow)] [No tour on the second floor (one-way tour)] Because ﾙｰﾄ cannot be done)] You can't visit the second floor bedroom with a small window of ｸﾜﾚｯﾄﾌｫｲﾙ (four-leaf pattern decorative window) which is a feature here, so if you plan to visit here, you need to pay attention to this point. However, there are two ﾗｲｵﾝ ...

Yamate's largest Spanish style western style building

Original Text

I visited from "Yamate Italy Mountain Garden" along Yamate Hondori, and visited the Yokohama Yamate Western Building. It was built in 1930 (Showa 5) as the private residence of British trader B.R. Berrick. The building, which is located on a site of 600 tsubo, is the largest existing prewar Yamate foreign house in Japan and is designed based on Spanish style. The design is an American architect J. H. Morgan known as an architect related to Yokohama, "former Maru building" and "Nippon Yusen ...