Prince Gong's Mansion in Beijing was built in 1777 for Heshen, an official of the Qianlong era. After his execution in 1799 the property passed to Prince Qing. In 1850 the Xianfeng Emperor gave it to Prince Gong, who moved in around 1852 after repairs. The article names no architect.
It is a group of siheyuan-style courtyard mansions with two-story buildings and a Peking opera house, with the buildings to the south and gardens to the north. The mansion covers 60,000 square meters (about 646,000 square feet), and the article does not say whether that includes the garden. The garden rockwork came from Lake Tai.
A Benedictine-run university used the site from 1921 to 1951. It opened to tourists in 1996 and was declared a national-level protected site in 1982.
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