Boljoon Public Market

A typical American era public market, it must have been built around 1910s. The building design is typical of all public markets of era, which has two-level GI Hip roof concrete columns and long span timber trusses with metal fishplates. It has been expanded at the highway side to accommodate the increasing commercial activities.

Poblio Sestoso House (Benjamin Sestoso Residence)

The house was built in 1932. Its original plan had a high-ceilinged ground floor. The second floor wall is made of clapboards. It features sliding Capiz windows and wooden spindled ventanillas. The house was renovated in the 1970s. The ground floor was then cemented with hollow blocks and the staircase was demolished. But the main entrance door still exists.

Filomino Cantonio Cortes Residence

The house was built in the 1940s. This typical American two-storey house has a Dutch hip roof, wooden clapboard walls and Capiz windows. The ground floor was also referred to as bungon, the place for weaving and storage.

Shirley Rollon is known to be one of last few weavers of the traditional blanket called pilok-pilok in Boljoon.

Conception Medida Property (Ting Lei Lai Warehouse)

This is a 1920s house with a rectangular plan with an exterior single-flight stairs. It has GI roofing, wooden clapboard wallsm sliding Capiz windows and wooden spindle ventanilla. It's typical Late American era house. Its ground floor is used for commercial purposes. It has metal accordation-type wall, which can be folded to fully open.

Tereso Pasual (Anselmo Canias Residence)

The house was built in 1936. An inscription of the stair landing says “1937”. This typical Late American era architecture has a rectangular plan. It has Dutch hip GI roofing and clapboard walls, sliding windows, wooden spindle ventanilla. There is a wire-mesh, which is like a screen on the window transom. The house layout suggests that the ground floor was used for commerce. It has fretted callado in the interior walls in the sala and bedrooms. Its present owner is an Arab national. The ground floor used to be the are for weaving blanket, locally known as hablon (habol) of the pilok-pilok variety. The area being used for weaving is called bungon.

Filimon Estella (Francisco Medida Residence)

Built around 1930, it was renovated in 1960. Originally, the house was built in the balige-tindog technique with the house raised on stilts. The second floor has maintained its original features such as storm shutters, sliding wood panel windows and wooden-spindled ventanilla. As part of the 1960 renovation first floor was enclosed together with the additional canopy for the windows.

The house was inherited by Gregoria Estella who became a widow of Juan Medida in 1944. Its present owner is Mr. Francisco Medida one of only two children of Gregoria and Juan Medida. His elder brother, Acer Medida, was a three-time vice mayor of Boljoon.

Francisco Medida related how he got the nickname “Kuku”. In 1944, during the Second World War, his uncle, Prencasio Estella, joined the local guirilla movement in Boljoon. A small Japanese army was regularly patrolling the town while hi mother Gregoria was in labor. The Japanese Army then noticed some blood coming out from the second floor of their house. The army went up to check what was going on and found out a baby was just been born. One of the soldiers took interest in the newborn and fonled him with the words saying, “Kuku! Kuku!”

Boljoon Central School

This 1913 six-room model of the Gabaldon School is made of hard wood and concrete. It has formal symmetrical façade and its windows have concrete balusters and columns. The roofing is G.I. Dutch hip and upper interior walls have fretwork design that circulates the ventilation inside the rooms. The Japanese Imperial Army the school and used it as a garrison.