Searching for Buildings Lost in Toyama Air Raid (2)
(Continued from last time) These are the buildings that were destroyed by fire in the Toyama Air Raid.
*Addendum to the completion year of City Hall (2018/3/18)
*Addendum about Showa Kaikan Hall added at the end of the text (2022/3/26)
*Re-added note about Showa Kaikan Hall at the end of the text (2022/5/21)
(6) Toyama City Library Completed in 1913, and the completion ceremony was held on December 7. The mayor said at the ceremony, “The design was commissioned to Dr. Tatsuno, a doctor of engineering…", so this building was designed by Kingo Tatsuno.
In 1934, the library was merged with the prefectural library, and this building became the main building of the prefectural library.
Photo: “History of Toyama City. Volume 2" (Toyama City, 1914)
(7) Toyama Municipal Jinzu Hospital. The construction completed in 1918. The predecessor of the hospital was “Toyama Infectious Hospital" established in 1897. The name was changed to Jinzu Hospital when it was relocated and reconstructed in 1918.
Photo: From “Hygiene Handbook" (compiled by Toyama City board of health in 1940)
(8) Toyama City Hall was completed in 1921.
Photo: From “Toyama 1934" (Toyama Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1934)
(9) Toyama Chamber of Commerce and Industry was completed in 1922.
Photo from “Toyama 1934" (Toyama Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1934)
(10) Showa Kaikan Hall (not surveyed yet). Around 1934. Also found depicted near the prefectural office in “Bird’s-eye View of Toyama Prefecture Tourism and Transportation" (published in 1936) drawn by Hatsusaburo Yoshida.
Photo from “History of Industrial Associations in Toyama Prefecture in commemoration of the Imperial reign 2600" (1940, Toyama Prefectural Branch of the Central Association of Industry, ed.)
For now, only the 10 photos I found are listed here.
I am interested in “Showa Kaikan Hall" of which I have not been able to find any information yet.
This time I used only the National Diet Library’s Digital Collections.
I am planning to check again at libraries and other places.
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[Postscript] (2022.03.26)
I found out that the Showa Kaikan Hall in (10) was completed in April, 1936. I found an article in the “History of Industrial Associations in Toyama Prefecture in commemoration of the Imperial reign 2600" (edited by the Toyama Prefectural Branch of the Central Association of Industry in 1940), which I wrote about above. The Toyama Branch of the Central Association of Industry also had its secretariat at the Showa Kaikan. It seems to have been built as a general office for various industrial organizations, and it was also a public hall equipped with a large hall and a stage.
[Postscript] (2022.05.21)
Further postscript. Aerial photographs suggest that the Showa Kaikan Hall may have been repaired and used after the war. We would like to continue my investigation.