After the Nationalist government relocated to Taiwan in 1949, the building underwent another change of identity, becoming the Shanghai Art Gallery. In the 1970s it became a Yue Opera academy, and was expanded with the addition of an adjacent practice hall, built in a similar style to the main building.
國府遷台以後，這裡變成上海中國畫院，一九七○年代成為越劇院學館，並在主建築旁加蓋了一間風格相近的練功房。