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Roberto Niere Residence The house was reconstructed in 1949 out of the materials from the ancestral home, which was demolished in that year. The house has a truncated roof with two rectangular ventilators. Walls are made of wooden clapboards with sliding wooden windows accentuated with wooden spindle ventanillas. There is an interesting geometric ornamentation on the window transom. This is one of the big houses large enough to accommodate relatives and extended families. The ancestral home was owned by Roberto Niere's mother Eulaila Niere, the sister of Casimero Niere, who was more popularly known as Kapitan Miroy. |
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Cirilio Sestoso House (Salvacion Sestoso Residence)
This house was built sometime in the 1880s. It features detailed ornamentation at the gutter. It has patched geometrical outer wall in between window panels with fretted ventanillas. Hard wood called tugas is used for posts and floor panels. It is perhaps the only remnant among the 19 th Ecentury houses of the Spanish Colonial period in Boljoon. |
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Salvacion Sestoso, the current owner, renovated sections of the house in 1969. An extension for the kitchen was also added. The house was built by Cirilio Sestoso, who was a Gobernadorcillo in Boljoon during the Spanish period. |
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Bell A bell, said to be the biggest the people had seen, is installed at a tower in front of the Boljoon Church , it is meant to send a warning signal. In those days, slave pirates raided the town. The ring of the bell resonates all over the coastal areas, even to neighboring towns. One day the pirates came. They took the bell from the tower and sailed off to sea. The bell put so much weight it sank the ship that had carried it. People believe the bell is at the bottom of the sea off the island of Siquijor . It is never to be recovered. |
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Gaudioso Calonge House (Zoila Calonge Residence)
Originally made of amakan walls, the ground floor of the his 1925 house has been recently cemented. The house has a Dutch hip roof. It has a radiating fan-like geometric design for the ventanillas. As as research time, it was still under construction. During the Second World War, the family of Gaudioso left the house and migrated to the mountains to avoid the war. It was abandoned and believed to have been used as temporary government office. From the accounts of Ms. Zoila Calonge, daughter of Gaudioso, upon their return from the mountains, they found office furniture, such as tables and chairs, which were then returned to the municipal hall. |
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Rodulfo Roma Residence
A typical post-independence house built around the 1950s, it features a gable roof, wide clapboards, sliding Capiz windows and window plant boxes with geometric ornamentation and bracketing. It has a protruding wall with a staircase leading to the second floor.
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