Because the Taiwanese didn't have the authority to make changes to the plans, the buildings of the residential zone looked like American houses of the 1950s. It was as if an entire American town had been transplanted to Yangmingshan. Some architectural scholars therefore refer to the Shantzuhou American military housing as a settlement of "colonial" buildings.
由於台灣方面沒有更動設計的權力，美軍宿舍的樣貌，因此十分近似 1950 年代時美國本土的住宅樣貌，等於是將美國人的家鄉面貌，整個移植到陽明山上來，有些建築學者因此將山仔后的美軍宿舍群，稱做租界式的「殖民建築」。