The Former Residence of Cai Yuanpei or Cai Yuanpei's Former Residence (Chinese: 蔡元培故居; pinyin: Cài Yuánpéi Gùjū) is the birthplace of Cai Yuanpei, a Chinese educator, esperantist, president of Peking University, and founder of the Academia Sinica.
[2] The former residence was originally built by Cai Jiamo (蔡嘉谟), the grandfather of Cai Yuanpei, in the reign of Daoguang Emperor (1821–1850) in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
[3] On 11 January 1868, Cai Yuanpei was born here.
[1] On 25 June 2011, it was listed among the fifth group of "State Cultural Protection Relics Units" by the State Council of China.
It has a building area of about 1,004-square-metre (10,810 sq ft), embodies buildings such as the main hall, the gate and the reception hall.