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Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman once lived in No. 923, Si Ming Housing Estate, Fu Xi Road (Now Yan'an Middle Road). It is an old stone-gate style building. Tagore once made a short stay there when he paid a second visit to Shanghai on Marth 29th, 1929.
The parlor in the middle of the first storey, decorated simply, only functions as a hallway. The bridal chamber is in the front wing in the second storey and the back wing serves as a smoking room for Lu Xiaoman. The third storey is Xu Zhi mo's study room.
Xu Zhimo is famous for Wife-loving Reading Notes and Daily Life Trifles and Luxiao Man for Xiao Man Diary. At the age of 36, Xuzhi Mo died in a plane crush accident in the end of October in 1931.
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