Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: Institutional marker
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1962
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
Marker text:
PAMPANGA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES
FOUNDED 1861 BY FR. JUAN P ZITA AND DON FELINO GIL ON A SITE DONATED BY THE SUAREZ. SISTERS OF BACOLOR. BUILDING WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE 1869 AND RECONSTRUCED 1892; USED AS; BARRACKS FOR FILIPINO SOLDIER OF THE SPANISH ARMY 1896; MAUNITIONS FACTORY 1897; PROVINCIAL CAPITOL OF PAMPANGA 1901-1904; PAMPANGA TRADE SCHOOL, 1909; BARRACKS FOR JAPANESE SOLDIER 1942-1944. BURNT IN DECEMBER 1944; REBUILT WITH U.S. AID 1946.
THIS SCHOOL WAS CONVERTED INTO A REGIONAL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES 28 OCTOBER 1956; BUILDING WAS DESTROYED AGAIN BY FIRE JULY 1958; RECONSTRUCTED, 1959.
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