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The Songyuan Guesthouse was built around ROC Year 32 (1943) and initially served as the military office of the Hualien Harbor "Military Affairs Division." Together with neighboring facilities like the "Broadcasting Station" (now the Hualien Branch of China Radio Company), "Coastal Radio Station" (now China Telecom Co., Ltd.), and the water plant (currently the Meilun Water Purification Plant of Taipei Water Company), these structures formed a pine forest cluster with natural elevated vantage points facing the Meilun Creek estuary along the northern shoreline. The site offered scenic views of the creek's seaward entrance, Hualien Harbor, and the Pacific Ocean. Strategically, it provided easy surveillance of maritime traffic near the southern coastline and aircraft takeoff and landings at the southern airfield. The dense foliage of pine trees formed a natural canopy that protected this site, which became a critical military command center for Japanese forces during the colonial era. After the end of the war, the site was taken over by the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and used as a leisure retreat for U.S. military advisors. Subsequently, the location has been administered by the Council of Veterans Affairs under the Executive Yuan since establishment. In 2000 (year 89), Hualien County Government designated Songyuan as a "Historic Landscape Special Zone." In 2001, it became one of the pilot sites for the Council of Cultural Affairs' "Renewal and Utilization of Idle Spaces" program and was selected as a "Top 100 Historical Scenes of Taiwan."