The former site of Hengyuanchang Factory is located at No.5, Canal Creative Block, Sanbao Street 14 1, Zhonglou District, Changzhou (in the former Changzhou No.5 Wool Textile Factory), adjacent to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the north. There are office buildings, old factories and other buildings during the Republic of China, covering an area of 346.375 square meters. The office building is located at the entrance of the gate. Built in 1936, burned in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, rebuilt in 1946. The building faces south, facing the canal, with five rooms wide and three entrances. The total width is 2 1m and the total depth is 45m. There is also a veranda with a width of 1.58m on the west side, with a total area of 1.000 m2 and a building area of 998m2. The first brick-wood structure has two floors, with a depth of10.6m, a eaves height of 6.7m, a roof height of 9.8m, a room width of 3.8m, a stairwell in the east, and a width of10.46m. The whole building is a Jiangnan residential style with two sloping roofs and hard hills. European architectural elements such as Roman columns and door and window covers are added to the western decoration, and the structure adopts herringbone beams, which has obvious characteristics of the times. Two, three as a whole, brick-concrete structure, single layer, width 19.5m, depth 18.5m, supported by cement columns, originally a factory building. There is a patio between the first and second entrances, with a depth of 4.9 meters. The old factory building is located in the southeast of the office building. Built in 1936, it was originally a wool textile workshop. There are 66 original buildings with an area of 2,022 square meters, and 2 existing buildings with an area of 76 square meters. Hengyuanchang Factory, formerly known as Sanhe Cloth Factory founded by 1932, was founded by three wood shop owners, Tang Mengxi, Jing Chunsheng and Fei Dingan. The factory is located in Sanbao Street near the ancient canal outside Ximen, Changzhou, and mainly produces 40 yards of white plain weave and white twill. 1933, Mao Xizhang, the owner of Runyuan Sebu Store, took over Sanhe Cloth Factory and changed its name to Hengyuan Cloth Factory. The word "source" is taken from the original name of Runyuan Color Cloth Shop. After Mao Xizhang took over, the factory not only wove, but also printed and dyed. Later, the word "Chang" was added to the name of the factory, which meant prosperity and a long history. It was renamed Hengyuanchang Dyeing and Weaving Co., Ltd. 1937. Before the Japanese army occupied Changzhou, Hengyuanchang Factory entered a golden age of development, with 450 workers and 224 looms, with a workshop area of 2 100 square meters. The production scale is expanding, the products are expanding, and trademarks such as "Child Eagle" are registered. In addition to textile mills, Hengyuanchang Factory has successively set up Dingyuan GaoZhi Nuo. And Dingyuan GroceryNo. Sell, and set up an overseas office in Shanghai-Shanghai Xinzhuang business office. Hengyuanchang Factory has gradually developed into a leading enterprise in Changzhou weaving industry. After the founding of New China, Hengyuanchang Factory was changed to a public-private partnership. 1966 After the implementation of the state-owned factory in September, Hengyuanchang Factory was renamed as the State-owned Changzhou No.5 Cotton Textile Factory, and in June it was renamed as Changzhou No.5 Wool Textile Factory, 438+0980. After the renovation of 20 10 was completed, the former site of Hengyuanchang Factory was transformed into "Canal No.5" creative block around the three themes of "Canal culture, industrial heritage and creative industry", and the historical and cultural and intangible cultural heritage was displayed, which became a successful example of the protection and utilization of modern industrial heritage in Jiangsu Province and an important witness to the development and changes of Changzhou national textile industry.
On February 26, 2008, the office building and old factory building of Hengyuanchang Factory were announced as municipal cultural relics protection units by Changzhou Municipal People's Government. 20111219. The former site of Hengyuanchang Factory was announced by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.