Kuo Chao--lee, chairman of the Department of Architecture at Chung Yuan Christian University, relates that the structures built between 1900 and 1920 copied their fundamental form from the "Second Empire" style of France under Napoleon Ⅲ.
中原大學建築系系主任郭肇立認為，這些介於一九○○年到一九二○年間的建築，其風格基本上是源自於模仿法國拿破侖三世以降的「第二帝國風格」。