Balay Negrense is one of the heritage houses in Silay City. The ancestral house was owned by Victor F. Gaston. The house was built 1897. It showcase the lifestyle of a late 19th-century Negrense sugar baron. It reflects American colonial influences. The house was left unused by the family ans was abandoned mid-1970. The Negrense Cultural Foundation acquired and renovated the house. With Department of Tourism, the foundation finishes the reconstruction of the house and inaugurated it as a lifestyle museum on October 6, 1990.
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