National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Provisional Capitol

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

Location: Tacloban City, Leyte (Region VIII)
Category: Buildings/Strcutures
Type: House
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1950

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

PROVISIONAL CAPITOL

CONSTRUCTED, 1910, AND ENLARGED, 1936. THIS EDIFICE, OWNED BY MR. AND MRS. WALTER S. PRICE, SHELTERED GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, WHO ESCAPED INJURY, 20 OCTOBER 1944, WHEN JAPANESE BOMB PENETRATED THE ROOF OVER HIS ROOM. SERVED AS PROVISIONAL CAPITOL 20–23 OCTOBER 1944, UPON THE RECONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES, FOR PRESIDENT SERGIO OSMEÑA.

Legend

LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Provisional Capitol

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