National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: The Provincial Government Building of Bataan

Location: Balanga, Bataan

Category: Buildings/Structures

Type: Building

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1939

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT BUILDING OF BATAAN

THIS BUIDING, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE CASA REAL, WAS BUILT IN THE YEARS 1792-1794 ACCORDING TO THE PLANS OF DOMINGO DE LA CRUZ GONZALES, AN ARCHITECT. WHEN CHARLES IV WAS KING OF SPAIN, RAFAEL MARIA DE AGUILAR WAS GOVERNOR GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES, AND DOMINGO DE GOYENECHEA WA ALCALDE MAYOR OF BATAAN PROVINCE. EARTHQUAKE DAMAGED THE CASA REAL IN 1852 AND 1854, AND REPAIRS WERE MADE IN 1854, 1869, 1880 AND 1885. THIS BUILDING WAS THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE BATAAN REVOLUTIONARY GROVERNMENT FROM MAY 31, 1898 TO JANUARY 1900. FROM 1903 TO 1906 IT HOUSED THE PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOL.

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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)

The Provincial Government Building of Bataan

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