No. 11 Yunhe Street was known as koteicho 204‐6 during the Japanese colonial period. Tomita Yoshisuke, an instructor at Taihoku Higher School, obtained its land ownership in April 1932. The building was likely part of the site at the time of this acquisition. The long central corridor was a middle class imitation of the upper class fusion of Japanese and Western houses, a typical feature of residences at the time.
In 1945, Taiwan Province Public Property Office of the R.O.C. government took over properties from Japan, and the Liang Shih‐Chiu House was among the transferred items. In 1985, NTNU became the managing institution of the House, and the House is now operated by the NTNU Library. The House became a registered historical building in 2004, and a survey was conducted in 2007. From 2010 to 2011, the House underwent restoration.
Tomita was from Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the English Department of Tokyo Higher Normal School and the English Department of the Humanities College of Kyoto Imperial University. He became a lecturer at Doshisha University, an instructor at Kagojima Middle School in Saga Prefecture, and a professor at the Sixth Higher School. In April 1922, he came to Taiwan as Instructor of English at the Taihoku Higher School, and left in March 1935 due to illness. He then became a professor at Kitakyushu Foreign Language University.
Chang was from Hebei, China, and graduated from Tohoku Imperial University, Japan. He was a professor at Peking Private Chinese University and National Peking Temporary University. He was a department chair and a professor at the Humanities College of Canton University. He was hired as Chair and Professor of Mathematics, as well as Chair of the Mathematics Training Course at Taiwan Provincial Teachers College (former name of NTNU). He died of illness in 1951.
Liang was from Qiantang County in Zhejiang, China. He graduated from the Colorado College, USA, and taught at Southeast University, Qingdao University and Peking University. He was hired as Chair of the English Department of Taiwan Provincial Teachers College in 1949. In 1952, he moved from No. 1 Dehui Street to No. 11 Yunhe Street, and he moved again in 1959 to Andong Street Lane 309 (known today as Ruian Street Lane 23). He retired from NTNU in 1966, and passed away in 1987.
Ning was from Hebei, China, and graduated from Tohoku Imperial University, Japan. He succeeded Liang Shih‐Chiu as Chair of the English Department at NTNU in 1959. While supervising overseas Chinese students in August 1964, he died of a sudden heart attack.