As you enter the lower level of the Lin Family Compound, you see the tin shack which serves as the workstation of the Ah-chao-wu Cultural Foundation, the group that oversees the lower level of the gardens. There are no historical buildings in sight; only the stone thresholds upon the ground indicate where the buildings once stood. Between the bricks in front of the steps the grass is already knee-high.
走進林家花園下厝，一旁是霧峰林家下厝管理委員會及「阿罩霧文化基金會」的鐵皮屋工作站，其他地方幾乎已經看不出任何古建築的樣貌，只有憑著地上的玄關依稀可辨原建物的位置，而階前紅磚縫隙所長出的新綠，甚至已高及人膝。