President Ho Chi Minh Memorial House relic site
The Memorial House is located on the main road, 300m away from the sea (high water level). It was originally the headquarters of the Party Committee - Administrative Committee of Co To commune, where Uncle Ho met with Co To cadres to advise on some of the Party's policies and guidelines and send the Party and the Government's wishes for the ethnic groups of the Northeast region of the country. The relic was built in a square walled campus of 2,209 m², 47m side. The path from the entrance to the memorial house is paved with red brick. The campus features chessboard squares planted with flowers and trees.
The Memorial House is built of red brick, including 5 compartments roofed with Song Cau tiles, and veranda wall. The house is 22.5m long and 6.3m wide. In the middle compartment, there is a painting by painter Van Giao depicting the day when Uncle Ho visited the island, and officers, soldiers, people and children of different ethnic groups gathered to welcome him. The two sides of the interconnected compartment on the right display the artifacts during his visit to the island. There is a simple bed where Uncle Ho took a nap at noon on May 9, 1961, on the bed are white sheets and a pillow, next to it is a two-chamber cabinet made of chestnut wood, 2m high and 1.2m wide, used to store Uncle Ho’s belongings. There is a table of 1m high, 0.8m wide, 1.5m long, and 4 chairs. In the glass cabinet, there are a set of clothes made of mahogany silk, a khaki shirt, a hat, a copper pot, a pair of rubber sandals, which were Uncle Ho's belongings, and some photos of Uncle Ho’s visit to the island, along with some pictures of the leaders of the Party and State such as the late General Vo Nguyen Giap, the late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, the late General Secretary Truong Chinh, and several excerpts from the talks and instructions of the leaders such as an excerpt of the talk of President Ho Chi Minh and an excerpt of the advice of the late General Secretary Le Duan. The two interconnected compartments on the left display the economic, political and military achievements of the people on the island before and after the district's establishment, including photos and supporting scientific documents. To the left of the memorial house is a 5-compartment house including a kitchen, renovated in 1975 for welcoming guests and serving as a working and living place of the management board in the old days.
In the memorial house, the construction works are designed in harmony with the space in the relic site, looking at Uncle Ho monument through the lotus pond.