bangued's posts with tag: 1945 bombing
|  | "These seemingly rock-solid houses are, in reality, as fragile as sand castles. Without a concerned and vocal citizenry, they must depend for their survival on how they fit in the modern marketplace."
This is the first installation of a two-part series of Balay collection.
I have now included a list of houses that had been damaged during World War II, demolished and thus, lost forever. These houses are the ff:
Tuazon House (E. Actividad Economia Street)
Bringas Compound (Taft Street)
Villamor House - which has been razed up recently (corner E. McKinley and N. Taft Streets)
Father Erasmo Alcantara House - now the site of Mormon Church (S. Capitulacion Street)
Pe Benito House - former site of Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils. and now foodcourt (W. Magallanes Street)
Unidentified House (N. Zamora Street near DWCB Compound)
Unidentified House (corner Washington and Santiago Streets)
On the other hand, Bangued luckily retained a little of its old-world charm, thanks to our concerned citizens. Though these houses have been restored and saved, their survival remains uncertain. Anyway, these houses are the ff:
Damian House (#37 W. Rizal corner W. Torrijos Streets)
Valera House (Don Virgilio Valera House) (corner Taft and E. Partelo Streets)
Torrijos House (corner E. Rizal and N. Gomez Streets)
Baroña House (corner Santiago and McKinley Streets)
Guy House (corner Partelo and Santiago Streets)
Torrijos House (Zone 7) (corner S. Santiago and Rizal Streets)
Co House (McKinley Street)
Purugganan House (corner Rizal and Vega Streets)
Baula House (corner Peñarrubia & Bowen Streets)
Valera House (Judge Francisco Valera House) (corner S. Zamora and E. Magallanes Streets)
Unidentified House (corner Bowen & Taft Streets)
Unidentified House (corner Taft and Villamor-Manzano Streets)
Among these houses, Torrijos, Purugganan and Baroña Houses deserve much attention. Torrijos House for one, beyond its Spanish colonial inspired architecture, used to house the very first transportation in Bangued -- the Torrijos Transportation via Bangued/Manila vice versa.
Please help us name the houses labeled as "Unidentified." You can also send in your contributions to this collection to banguedenio@yahoo.com. |
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