National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Philippine Commission's First Session in Baguio

Location: Session Road, Baguio City, Benguet

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1940

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker Text:

PHILIPPINE COMMISSION'S FIRST SESSION IN BAGUIO

THIS IS THE SITE OF THE BUILDING WHERE THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION HELD ITS FIRST SESSION IN BAGUIO FROM APRIL 22 TO JUNE 11, 1904, INCLUSIVE, INITIATING USE OF BAGUO AS THE PHILIPPINES' SUMMER CAPITAL. THE COMMISSION WAS COMPOSED OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL LUKE E. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT, AND COMMISSIONERS HENRY C. IDE, DEAN C. WORCESTER, T. H. PARDO DE TAVERA, BENITO LEGARDA, JOSE R. DE LUZURIAGA, JAMES F. SMITH, AND W. CAMERON FORBES. IN THIS SESSION, 74 ACTS AND 273 RESOLUTIONS WERE APPROVED.

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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)

Philippine Commission's First Session in Baguio

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