Saturday, 10 December 2011

BALAY NEGRENSE

















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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