This the old building is Straight Hall,was initiated in 1925 and completed on 19 October 1928.The total expense of 250,000 yuan was jointly donated by Mrs. Willard D. Straight from the United States and Rockfeller Foundation. The hall is now the location for the Department of Chemistry of School of Chemistry of Sun Yat-sen University. Straight Hall was included in the list of preservation of Outstanding Pre-modern and Mordern Architectural Clusters by Guangzhou Urban Planning Bureau in 2000,and approved as Guangdong Cultural Relics by Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture in 2002.