Yet it might have come to pass, for seven years ago, Taipei was embroiled in an emotional, prolonged debate over whether the extension of Tun Hua South Road should entail the destruction of the Lin An-T'ai ku-ts'o. The residence, over 200 years old, represented the only ku-ts'o still intact in Taipei.
七年前，此地轟轟烈烈的「安泰古厝」拆存之爭，遂隨著這條東區黃金地段五十米道路上巨廈林立、車水馬龍的盛況，為人淡忘。