National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Silliman University

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Location: Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Building, University
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1966
Installed by: National Historical Commission (NHC)
Marker text:

SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY

ORIGINALLY AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDED IN 1901 BY DR. AND MRS. DAVID S. HIBBARD UNDER THE TERMS OF A GIFT BY PHILANTHROPIST, DR. HORACE B. SILLIMAN, IT WAS CONVERTED INTO A COLLEGE IN 1910 AND A UNIVERSITY IN 1938. ITS BUILDINGS WERE OCCUPIED BY THE JAPANESE FORCES FROM 1942 TO 1945. IT WAS REOPENED AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE FIRST FILIPINO PRESIDENT, DR. LEOPOLDO T. RUIZ, WAS ELECTED IN 1952.

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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)

Silliman University

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