Millennial bahay na bato10/28/2023 In fact, scenes from the classic Pancho Magalona film Luis Látigo were shot inside that house. Some movie companies have also rented it. Rodrigo said that he allowed his ancestral house to be photographed from within. ![]() The kind sir, however, prohibited us from going inside the house due to “paranormal” reasons. Yeyette introduced ourselves and told him that we’re bahay na bató aficionados, and that we just want to take photos of the house’s interiors. He’s a gentleman who appears to be in his late 40s. After receiving directions, we set for his house. Nobody lives there anymore but it is still owned by one Jack Rodrigo who just lives a few paces from the house. It was obvious from the outside that the house is already abandoned. Yeyette inquiring about the unoccupied house from bystanders. ![]() Restoration work was done by Fray Patricio Martín in 1885 it was completed by Fray Domingo de la Prieta in 1889. Another earthquake in 1869 tilted the belfry, but Fray Marcos Hernández renovated it in 1877. But it was damaged again by the deadly Corpus Christi earthquake of 1863. ![]() Fray Gaspar Folgar had the church repaired in 1812. From there, the invaders went to as far as Bulacán and burned the church. But the stone structure and convent was built in 1762, the same year when the British invaded Manila. In fact, its church, Nuestra Señora De La Asunción, is the province’s oldest. But surely, Bulacán is one of the country’s oldest it was founded by the Augustinian Order in 1572, just a year after the country was founded by the Spaniards. What I am still unsure of is whether this town was named after the province, or if the province was named after the town. But Bulacán today does not cultivate cotton farming, fishing, garments, and food processing are its major industries today. We dropped off at Bigaá (now Balagtás) then rode a jeepney going straight to Bulacán.Īccording to sources, the town’s name was derived from the Tagalog word bulac which means “cotton” which apparently used to grow abundantly in the area. When we went there, however, we rode a bus that passed through world-class North Luzón Expressway since we’re not accustomed to trips north of Manila (the Southerners that we are). It can be reached, in fact, in just an hour from the City of Manila via the Municipality of Obando - but only if traffic is cooperative. The municipality of Bulacán -sharing the name of the Tagalog-speaking province where it is located- is one of the provincial towns that is very near Metro Manila. Bahay na bato had a rectangular plan that reflected vernacular Austronesian Filipino traditional houses integrated with Spanish style.In front of the Marcelo H. Horses for carriages were housed in stables called caballerizas. Like bahay kubo, much of this ground level was reserved for storage in business districts, some spaces were rented to shops. ![]() It followed the bahay kubo’s arrangements such as open ventilation and elevated apartments used as living space with the ground floor used for storerooms, cellars, and other business purposes. Roofing is either Chinese tiled roof or thatch (nipa, sago palm, or cogon), of which many today are being replaced by galvanized or other modern roofing. Its most common appearance is that of an elevated, overhanging wooden upper-story nipa hut (with balustrades, ventanillas, and capiz shell sliding windows) that stands on Spanish-style solid stone blocks or bricks and posts as foundation instead of just wood, bamboo stilts, or timber posts. Thus created was a hybrid of Austronesian, Spanish, and Chinese architecture. Its design has evolved throughout the ages, but still maintains the bahay kubo’s architectural basis which corresponds to the tropical climate, stormy season, and earthquake-prone environment of the whole archipelago of the Philippines and fuses it with the influence of Spanish colonizers and Chinese traders. It is an updated version of the traditional bahay kubo. Bahay na bato (Tagalog, literally “house of stone”) is a type of building originating during the Philippines’ Spanish Colonial Period.
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