University Of Luzon

Perez Blvd. Dagupan City

st
1 Semester S.Y. 2020 - 2021

PANGASINAN
HERITAGE
BUILDINGS
Submitted by: (Group 5)
Alabado, Joenalyn
Navarro, Ereca T.
Resido, Jeremy
Rodriguez, Mark Jason
Submitted to:
Ar. Freddie Arcalas
(Instructor)
BENGSON –
YUSON
HOUSE
BY: ALABADO, JOENALYN
BENGZON – YUSON ANCESTRAL HOUSE
The Bengson-Yuson ancestral house was built
in the early 18th century and is reputed to be
one of the oldest standing houses in Lingayen
town. It is the ancestral home of our late
ancestors, Assemblyman Antonio Bengson
and his wife Soterana Yuson.

The ancestral house, built aroung 1802 at

Bengson Street, Poblacion, Lingayen.

It was donated by the Bengson-Yuson families

and rehabilitated by the provincial
government of Pangasinan. Speaking on behalf
of the clan, former congressman Antonio

Bengson said that the donation was a gesture of

their family’s confidence in the leadership of the
governor to preserve historical and cultural
resources. The edifice now houses the Center for
Pangasinan Studies, office of the Pangasinan
Historical and Cultural Commission, the extension
office of the Provincial Tourism and Cultural
Affairs, and serves as a museum and art exhibit
venue. It will serve as a repository of documents, researches, artifacts and media materials on
Pangasinan.

The building was inaugurated last April 5 during the commemoration of the 436th “Agew
na Pangasinan” (Pangasinan Day). A solo art exhibit by internationally-acclaimed visual artist
Romeo Castillo MananQuil dubbed "Pangasinan ed Pusok" (Pangasinan in my Heart) which also
started during the inauguration will run until May 1, 2016.

Though it is not a declared heritage building or site by the NHCP, it will serve its purpose
as a heritage center. Meanwhile, the restoration project being undertaken by the provincial
government with the assistance of NHCP, DPWH and TIEZA.
The ancestral house was slightly renovated because some parts of the house was slightly
damaged.
 It will serve as a repository of documents, researches, artifacts and media materials on
Pangasinan.

As it initial offering, the center also unveiled “Pangasinan Ed

Pusok” solo art exhibit by internationally renowned Pangasinense visual artist Maestro Romeo
ManaQuil.

The collection comprised 13 oil canvass depicting filial bond, life, ways and landscapes,
with some of the works reflecting touches of homecomings to the province, and the six currency
designs approved by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

Some of the pieces displayed are shown to the public for the first time.

Manaquil said that he is putting his works for sale exclusively for this exhibit’s run only,
thinking that those who will buy them will keep them as an heirloom for their posterity.

The artist’s Pangasinense roots traces back to his mother Gloria Malicdem – Castillo,
who hails from the town of Binmaley.

PAINTINGS OF MANAQUIL:
BENGSON – YUSON HOUSE
CASA
REAL
By: NAVARRO, ERECA T.
CASA REAL
Also known as Royal House is
one of the oldest public buildings and
served as the provincial seat of
government of Lingayen, Pangasinan in
the Philippines during the Spanish
occupation in the country. It was where
the Alcalde Mayor held office as the
Provincial Governor and the Judge of
the Court of First Instance. It was
declared a National Landmark by
the National Historical Commission of the Philippines and noted it as "an outstanding and unique
example of civil architecture from the Spanish and American colonial periods". Local offices
that were housed by the building abandoned it when Typhoon "Cosme" ripped off its roof in
2008. The provincial government
of Pangasinan has already allotted funds for its
renovation, which will turn it into a museum.

Casa Real is not just a house of grandeur

and history to the people of this province, but
considered one of the symbols of the state.

In 1840s, the 1,480-square meter, two-

story Casa Real made of stone masonry and a
bricks which stands at the municipal plaza was
constructed. It also became the station of Spanish
soldiers and their native recruits when they fought
the Katipuneros.
During the American period, it was called ‘capitol’ and
served as the office of the governor. When Judge William Howard
Taft and his commissioners went to Lingayen, Pangasinan, they
were given a grand reception at Casa Real on Feb. 16, 1901. This
happened after the Taft Commission organized Pangasinan as a
civil province. In 1918, the seat of the provincial government was
eventually transferred to what is now the Pangasinan Provincial
Capitol Building.
In the 1930s, Casa Real was used as an elementary school,
then as Juzgado (a tribunal court) and, later, as offices of the municipal government.
Casa Real survived the damages brought by World War II. However, in 2008, Tropical
Storm Cosme damaged the building, blowing away its roof. Local officials of Pangasinan
brought up with an idea of renovating the building. The reason of its restoration is not just a
matter of fixing it but also restoring its integrity of its character.
HISTORY BACKGROUND:
In 1840’s, during the Spanish colonial
period, a building that served as the provincial
seat of government was constructed in Lingayen,
the capitol town of Pangasinan. It was called
CASA REAL. It literally means royal house
where the “Alcalde Mayor” resided and held
office as the Provincial Governor and the Judge of
the Court of First Instance.
CASA REAL was one of the early public
edifices in the country to be constructed of brick
or stone masonry. Built next to the Carcel or the
provincial jail, it is located near the Agno River,
the biggest river in Pangasinan. It is two-storey
structure with the floor area of 1,728 sqm. The
still intact (as of 2008) adobe walls ornate ceiling, the staircase of piedra china steps and wooden
balustrades that lead up to the hardwood planks of the second floor are all mute witnesses to the
history of the town as well as of the
province from the Spanish times to the
present.
It was later referred to as Gobierno
in 1886 because the position of Gobernador
Civil was created to perform the executive
function only, henceforth being the Judge
of the Court of the First Instance.
During the revolutionary war against Spanish rule, the Spanish soldiers and the
Voluntarios Locales (native recruits of the Spaniards who fought the
Katipuneros) hold out at the CASA REAL. On June 29, 1898, the Pangasinan
Katipuneros from different towns planned to capture Lingayen by taking
CASA REAL.
On February 16, 1901, Judge William Howard Taft and his three
commissioners formally organized Pangasinan as a civil province in a
national assembly held in Dagupan that drew 367 delegates from all
over the province. One of the issues discussed was the capital town,
whether to retain Lingayen as such or move it to Dagupan, a fast-
building commercial center. The delegates chose Lingayen because of
the existence of Casa Real that continues to be used as the provincial
seat of government. The following day, Judge Taft and the
Commissioners Dean Worcester, Luke Wright and Bernard Moses went
to Lingayen and were feted with a grand reception in Casa Real.
 Henceforth, the building was referred to as CAPITOL, the
same name for the building in Washington, D.C. During that
time, this Capitol building was the venue of an Exposition in
February 1910. It was a big occasion that attracted many
people in Pangasinan and other provinces. Some old people
think it was a carnival because their parents regaled them with
stories of seeing wild animals like lions, tigers and elephants
for the first time.

In 1918, the present Capitol building was constructed under

the administration of Gov. Daniel Maramba at the famous
Lingayen beach. The provincial offices moved there in 1919
and the vacated Casa Real was used as a public elementary
school for about three to four years before it became the
JUZGADO that housed only Regional Trial Court in the
whole province of Pangasinan.

During the Japanese occupation the Japanese used Casa Real building as their office.
After the war, when the new capitol building needed extensive repair because of damage
inflicted by the American naval bombardment,
the provincial offices had to move back to the Juzgado
until the repair work was done.

The old building – CASA REAL, Gobierno,

Capitol, Juzgado – survived several earthquakes and
bombings of WWII. It was declared a National
Historical Landmark by the National Historical Institute in
2002 with 95% of its original materials then intact.

In 2008 super
typhoon Cosme ripped off a part of its roof and
the open structure allowed the thieves to steal the
balustrades, some wooden floor planks, doors, and
windows. The municipal government offices that
occupied it, like the Sangguniang Bayan, DSWD,
and DARAB, vacated the place and it became an
empty shell in dire need of restoration, a historic
building
built
heritage in a
sorry estate.
 Governor Espino who was the reigning leader in Pangasinan was given the permission to
clean up the building and protect it from further vandalism while waiting for its restoration to
come. The PHSI runs out of funds to sustain the protection of the building so for the mean time
they focused on finding the wooden materials that were not carted away by the thieves and these
were hauled somewhere for safekeeping. These will be used in the restoration of the building for
it is important to retain as much as original materials as possible to keep its heritage value.

RUINS OF CASA REAL:

RESTORED CASA REAL (PRESENT)
(CASA REAL)
 (FAÇADE)

ST
(1 FLOOR WINDOW)

(COLUMN DETAIL)

(2ND FLOOR WINDOW) (WINDOW CORBEL) (ORNAMENT)

 EPIPHANY OF
OUR LORD
PARISH
By: Resido, Jeremy

EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD PARISH

The Co-Cathedral-Parish Church of Epiphany of Our Lord,
formerly Three Kings Parish Church, is a Roman
Catholic church located in Lingayen, Pangasinan in the Philippines.
It is the co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Lingayen-Dagupan.

The church was founded in 1587, the

same year as the Saint Dominic de
Guzman Parish Church in San Carlos,
Pangasinan

The municipality
of Lingayen, Pangasinan was founded by Spanish
Augustinian missionaries in 1614. The parish was
established in 1616 and named it Los Tres Reyes or The
Three Kings. By 1740, the parish was under the care of
the Dominicans until the Filipino revolt against the Spaniards took place in 1898. From 1900 to
1933, Filipino priests took charge of the parish until the Columban missionaries
from Ireland came to the province. In 1939, the Columban Sisters arrived to serve in the
catechetical apostolate in public schools.

The enormous church was made the seat of the newly

established Diocese of Lingayen on May 19, 1928.[3] It has gone
through many stages of reconstruction especially during World War II.
When combined Filipino & American forces dropped bombs in the
Poblacion. The bishop's palace (bishop's residence) was also damaged,
causing it to be moved from Lingayen, Pangasinan to Dagupan,
Pangasinan through the Papal Decree of Pope Pius XII

During the term of the first Team Ministry, the parish adopted
the name Epiphany of Our Lord Parish. The change of the centuries-old
church bells dating back to the 1800s was done and displayed outside
the cathedral. The second Team Ministry led various church renovation
projects.

ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS

It is a massive church made of adobe with an imposing Oriental Pagoda-like bell tower

(supposedly an architectural influence of the town's Christianized Chinese inhabitants during the
Spanish Colonial Period) earned its distinction as one of the best structures in Pangasinan. The
dome was designed by Father Miguel Aparicio.
 (2015)

(Present)

(INTERIOR)

DRAWINGS:
SAINT JAMES
THE GREAT
PARISH
CHURCH
BY: RODRIGUEZ, MARK JASON

SAINT JAMES THE

GREAT PARISH
CHURCH
 The Saint James the Great Parish Church is a Spanish colonial church located at Brgy.
Germinal in Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines. The church was made out of black coral stones.
The church underwent series of natural and man-made calamities, such as the 1788 earthquake,
1819 fire incident, and Typhoon Emong in 2009

The first religious friars in Bolinao were the Augustinians who stayed in the town from
1585 to 1587. The Dominicans took charge from 1588 to 1599. In 1600, the Augustinians
returned and stayed until 1607. The missionary works left by the Augustinians were taken over
by the Augustinian Recollects who administered the town from 1609 to 1679, up to 1712 when
the Dominicans took over again. When the Recollects returned in 1609, they transferred the town
to the mainland because of the troubles inflicted by the piratical raids. The Recollect fathers
returned in 1749 and took charge until 1784. Since then, several priests administered the parish.
The church tower of Bolinao used to be
the tallest in Pangasinan until an earthquake
destroyed half of the tower in 1788. The church
convent was accidentally burned in 1819.
The first priest was ordained in Bolinao
Church in 1974. In 1985, it became a parish of
the Diocese of Alaminos, previously being
under the Diocese of Lingayen.
On May 7, 2009, the church was heavily devastated by Typhoon Emong and has since
then been undergoing repairs and renovations.
ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS
. One of the oldest churches in
Pangasinan, St. James the Great Parish
Church in Bolinao, Pangasinan was constructed in
1600s using native materials that includes wood,
ground coral stones, rocks, and eggs (probably as
binding agent). The church remains the center of
catholic faith in Bolinao and served as shelter from
pirate raids as well as during the World War II.

The ST. JAMES THE GREAT PARISH

Bolinao, Pangasinan was canonically erected in the
year 1609 when the Augustinian Friars took over
this mission territory which was earlier entrusted by the Spanish Colonial Government to the
Dominican Friars in the year 1594 and left the place in the year 1607 due to the vastness of their
mission territories and the scarcity of their missionary members.
 The Church tower of Bolinao measuring seventy five
(75) feet was then the tallest in the whole Pangasinan if not
in the entire Northern Luzon. However, an earthquake in
1788 toppled about half
of it. Then in 1819, the
Church Convent was
also accidentally
burned.
Saint James the
Great Parish is in High Renaissance style. One feature of the
church is its trefoil arch main door. The overall design of
the facade is plain and simple with the super-
positioned columns alternating with window openings and
tall blind arches conspicuously dominating the ends of the
walls.