Lee Shih-chiao was a Taiwanese oil painter born in Shinshō (the present-day Xinzhuang Township, Taipei County) on 13 July 1908.

[3] In 1923, he entered Taipei Normal School (台北師範學校), and began to receive formal art education under Ishikawa Kinichiro.

[4] In 1927, his watercolor painting entitled Taipei Bridge was selected for the first Taiwan Art Exhibition (Taiten).

The painting depicted Yungle Market in Taipei and emphasized socioeconomic inequality in Taiwan shortly after the end of World War II.

This painting demonstrates the artist's adept handling of group images as well as his skillful use of realist style.

[9] After 1950, Lee's style began to move away from realism, and he started using Picasso-esque techniques or reverse perspective in order to manifest the subjects of his works.

In 1963, Lee began to teach arts at National Taiwan Normal University as an associate professor.

[3] Lee closed his studio, retired from art education and moved to Seattle to live with his daughter in 1982.

Subsequently, the Huang family decided to register the house as a historical site to protect it from redevelopment.