Provisional Capitol

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

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.

Capitol Building of the Philippines, 1944-1945*

NHCP Photo Collection

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

Location: Tacloban City, Leyte (Region VIII)

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Capitol building

Status: Level I- National Historical Landmark

Legal basis: Resolution No. 4, S. 2008

Marker date: 1950

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

CAPITOL BUILDING OF THE PHILIPPINES, 

1944–1945

ON THE STEPS OF THIS CAPITOL BUILDING OF LEYTE WAS FORMALLY INSTALLED, 23 OCTOBER 1944, SERGIO OSMEÑA AS PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES BY GEN. DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR IN THE PRESENCE OF CABINET MEN, LIBERATION FORCES AND MANY OTHER GRATEFUL PEOPLE. HENCEFORTH, UNTIL 27 FEBRUARY 1945, THIS EDIFICE SERVED AS THE CAPITOL OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Sergio Osmeña House Historical Landmark*

Location: Osmeña Boulevard cor. Lapulapu Street, Cebu City

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level I- National Historical Landmark

Legal basis: NHI Resolution No. 4, s 1984

Marker date: 9 September 1959

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

BIRTHPLACE OF SERGIO OSMEÑA, SR.

IN A HOUSE ON THIS SITE, SERGIO OSMEÑA, SR., WAS BORN 9 SEPTEMBER 1878.

SERVED AS PROVINCIAL FISCAL OF CEBU AND NEGROS ORIENTAL (1905); PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR OF CEBU (1904, 1906–1907); MEMBER AND FIRST SPEAKER OF THE PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY (1907–1922); SENATOR (1922–1935); VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH (1935–1944); PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH (1944–1946).