In 1920, after the establishment of the Xinhua County Office in Tainan Prefecture, the "Urban Correction" project was carried out and the present-day Zhongzheng Road was widened from 6 meters wide to 12 meters wide. In 1921, cloth merchant Lin Maoji spent 3,000 yen and hired a craftsman nicknamed "Ler Ka Shu-ah" to build a Western-style building (now No. 435 Zhongzheng Road), which made neighboring merchants to imitate and follow suit, and in around 1926, the west side of present-day Zhongzheng Road was entirely converted into Western-style buildings. The eastern-side street houses were demolished in 1937 when the road was widened to build a drainage ditch.
Later, in 1995, the Xinhua Town Office launched an urban renovation plan to widen Zhongshan Road from 12 meters to 15 meters, thus demolishing the original street houses. Later, Professor Wang, Ming-heng of architecture at Cheng Kung University, took the lead in initiating the slogan of preserving the old street, and finally, on January 25, 1999, the "Public Hearing on the Development, Preser vation and Widening Research and Business on the Old Streets" decided to preserve the Zhongzheng Road street houses with 22 households in favor of preservation, 5 households against, and 8 void votes. This is an important case for promoting the preservation of regional cultural assets for local people.
在 1920 年，臺南州新化郡役所設置後，進行了「市區改正」工程而將今中正路從 6 公尺拓寬為 12 公尺。1921 年，布商林茂己耗費三千圓請來綽號「躼跤壽仔」的匠師興建洋樓(今中正路 435 號)，隨後引來鄰近商家效仿，約到了 1926 年左右今中正路西側便都改建成洋樓。至於東側街屋則是在 1937 年拓寬馬路興建排水溝時拆除改建。
後來到了 1995 年，新化鎮公所規畫都市改造計畫，將中山路從 12 公尺拓寬為 15 公尺，因而拆掉了原有街屋。後來由成功大學建築系教授王明蘅率先發起老街保存的口號，最後在 1999 年 1 月 25 日的「老街在發展保存與拓寬研商公聽會上」，以 22 戶贊成保存、5 戶反對、8 票無意見的結果確定保存中正路街屋。為地方民眾推動區域文化資產保存的重要案例。
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