The historical evolution of Sinan residence began in 1920. This year, along the Rue Lafayette (now Fuxing Middle Road) in the south of "French garden" (now Fuxing Park), the first batch of garden mansions rose. In the following ten years, garden houses in the south of Lafayette Road, the east of route Massenet road and the west of Avenue Dubai road have been built successively, attracting a large number of military and political dignitaries, entrepreneurs, professionals and famous artists at that time, This made this area the residence and gathering place of the upper class society at that time.