The former <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://s-ohtsuki.sakura.ne.jp/sansakutenbyou/beautifulspot/Shoka_no_Yokohama_SansakuH240614/Sub2_Yokohama_Minato_no_Mieru_Oka_Kouen/newpage06-S.html"><big><b>French Consulate</b></big></a>  and its official residence was built on the lower spur of the  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.japantravel.com/kanagawa/a-view-from-the-french-hill-park/2631"><i>French Hill</i></a>   (now a part of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://trip.pref.kanagawa.jp/destination/harbor-view-park-minato-no-mieru-oka-koen/14"><b>Minato-no-Mieru Oka Koen</b> <i>Harbor View Park</i>)</a>  in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamate" class="extiw" title="en:Yamate">Yamate-cho</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naka-ku,_Yokohama" class="extiw" title="en:Naka-ku, Yokohama">Naka-ku, Yokohama </a> under the design of the French architect <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ikazamay.com/tag/paul-sarda/"><b>Paul Pierre Sarda</b></a> on March 1896. It was devastated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake" class="extiw" title="en:1923 Great Kantō earthquake">1923  <b>Great Kantō earthquake</b></a>. In 1930 it was rebuilt by a Swiss architect <i>Max Hindel</i>, born in 1887, who visited Japan in 1924, started building activities in Sapporo and moved to Yokohama in 1927. The consulate official residence was burned down by <i>suspicious</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate-en.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kurashi/kyodo-manabi/library/shiru/kakuku/naka/0006760066-p.html">fire in 1947</a>. What remains is unburned concrete on the ground floor and the well. Yokohama City acquired the French Hill area from France in 1971 and developed it as part of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.japantravel.com/kanagawa/a-view-from-the-french-hill-park/2631"><b>Minato-no-Mieru Oka Koen</b></a>, and was finally opened to the public in 1972. During the construction of the park, four foundations of <b>windmills</b> for pumping the well water were also excavated around the hill.
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