"At the beginning of the establishment of public schools, there were no school buildings, and the residential buildings near Xuhui were temporarily used for enrollment. He Sikun, the first prime minister of a public school, bought land at the current site of the school and planned to build a school building. In the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), the public school was designed and supervised by American John Calvin Ferguson. A year later, a three-story brick-wood western-style building was officially completed, and its cost was
I lived near Jiaotong University when I was a child. At that time, people called the gate play of Jiaotong University Temple Gate. There used to be a complete bridge at the door. It is said that there was a river below earlier, but it was later filled in. Huashan Road was widened in the 1990s, and the bridge and nearby street houses were demolished, leaving only a short section as a souvenir.