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Watchtower near the river

This two-story coral stone watchtower has an octagonal plan. It has a series of battlements on the upper part of the watchtower with a projecting semi-circumlar molding underneath. It is about 20-foot high. This can also be attributed to Fray Julian Bermejo. The dating can be traced to early 1800s.

Tereso Pasaul (Anselmo Canias Residence)

The house was built sometime in 1936, An inscription date of 1937 can be found at the stair landing. This typical late-American era architecture has a rectangular plan. It has a Dutch-hip GI roofing and clapboard walls, sliding windows, wooden spindle ventanilla. There is a wire mesh-like screen in the window transom. The layout of the house suggests that the ground floor was used for commercial purpose. It has fretted callado in the interior walls in the sala and bedrooms. Present owner is an Arab national.

Braulio Anteporta House (Romero Residence)

Believe to have been built in the 1890s this house of the traditional vernacular folk architecture is made of Tugas Halige and tabla floors. It has been restored several times using the same materials for walls and nipa roofs. The house has original L-shaped plan but several structural additions have expanded the floor.

Jose Fidellaga House (Conchita Fidellaga Residence)

Built on 1919, the house still has its original clapboard walls. The columns are made up of Tugas and Ipil-ipil, with beams and posts joint by traditional technique using wooden pegs instead of nails. The ground floor has Siklat bamboo for walling.

Isidario Calonge House (Imelda C, Dellana Residence)

The house was built on 1931 as inscribed in a transom panel. It has pronounced clapboard panel that were added in 1940s. The family was engaged in farming and trading Tobacco before the World War II. The drying of the tobacco leaf used to be in the living room.

Boljoon Bridge

Originally a wooden bridge, it was constructed on 1913 along with the elementary school. The steel frame was added after the typhoon Nitang weakend the original wooden structure. There is an account that the river was diverted to its present path during the American period to protect the town center from flooding.

 

 
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