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Vicente Derama House (Eugenio and Maxima V. Alo Residence)

The house could be built around 1890s. It has sliding Capiz windows and storm shutters and wooden spindled ventanillas. It has wooden pilaster and a nipa roof. The columns and floor planks are made of tugas.

A big portion of the house was renovated around 1940s. This is one of the houses built large enough to accommodate children who have families on their own. It was a practice in Boljoon during the 1920s to keep all family members, and even relatives, under one roof even as they got older and have their own families.

Josefina Estavilla House (Arnolfo Niere Residence)

This two-storey house was built in 1949, It is a typical American type house built by local carpenter Kayo Anterporta, who likewise designed the house, which features are proportionate to the small lot area. As a result, the house features smaller door and window openings, which gives it an interesting façade. Its columns are made of yakal and its floor of red lawaan. It still has its original paintings on its walls and ceiling. It has typical gable roof. It has an interesting geometric fenestration.

Sulpicio Niere acquired the house on 1956. Arnolfo Niere, the present owner, is the son of Sulipicio Niere.

Dr. Dioniso Niere House

This 1930s house has a formal symmetrical façade with a truncated main roof. Its distinctive characteristic is a protruding vestibule, which extends up to the second floor, It has casement windows with geometric designs on the upper floor and a wooden spindle ventanillas, tri-foil stained glass ornamentation on top of the window transom.

From oral accounts and interview with Mr. Adolfo Estella, a retired teacher. The house was used as headquarters of the guerilla army under the commandant of Maj. Leonilo Jamoy during the Second World War. Maj. Jamos ordered the town to be evacuated during the outbreak of the war on 1942.When Cebu province was under the Japanese imperial army. Maj. Jamoy fled to other areas.

Dr. Dionisio Niere was a member of the 1948 constitutional convention.

   
 
 

Esteban N.
Yncierto
Residence

Built in the 1930s, this Late American era house has a truncated roof, wooden clapboard walls and rooms that open to individual canopied balconies. It features a geometric and radial ornamentation on top of the balcony. The first floor has been renovated with cement walls and tile floors from the original bamboo walling.

Amancia Getizo Residence

This 1950s Post-Independence wood house has two floors. It has sliding Capiz panel windows on the second floor and Capiz casement window on the first. It was renovated and expanded in 1972. The original staircase has been removed to make room for lining quarters in the first floor.

     

Casimero Niere House (The Rev. Fr. Glicerio Diosara Residence)

The house must have been built around 1890s based on estimates by Fr. Glicerio Diosara, the present owner. This is originally the house of Casimero Niere, the third mayor of Boljoon. He was known as Kapitan Miroy, Fr. Diosara's great grandfather. The house is characterized by clapboards, a typical feature of middle-American era houses. It has Capiz sliding windows. There used to be a veranda attached to an exterior staircase, which was the distinctive feature of the house. There are fretwork designs on the soffit ceiling. The interior shows fretted geometric callado.

Gregorio Romero House (Pascual Feguera Residence)

Built in the early 1920s, this Mid-American era style house has high sliding window panels above intricate Gingerbread fretwork designs at the ventanillas. This is balanced with equally detailed fretworks at the metal soffit above in G.I. sheets. Tugas wood panels are used in the walls and floors of the second floor. The well maintained roof is made of nipa.

 

   
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