National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Pagsanjan Municipal Building

NHCP Photo Collection, 2009

NHCP Photo Collection, 2022

Location: Pagsanjan, Laguna (Region IV-A)

Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Government Center

Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1956

Installed by: National Historical Commission (NHC)

Marker text:

PAGSANJAN MUNICIPAL BUILDING

ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND HOUSED THE “TRIBUNAL DEL GREMIO DE NATURALES”; OCCUPIED BY THE FILIPINO REVOLUTIONARY FORCES IN 1898 AND BY THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES IN 1899–1903; SERVED AS THE FIRST PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN LAGUNA 1903–1907; HOUSED THE MUNICIPAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UNTIL 1911; LATER BECAME THE SEAT OF THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. DESTROYED ON 20 MARCH 1945; REHABILITATED AND RECONSTRUCTED IN 1951 AND COMPLETED IN 1955.

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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)

Pagsanjan Municipal Building

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