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Declared an Important Cultural Property by the National Museum of the Philippines, this 19th-century bahay na bato in Ilocos Norte has been unveiled in its reincarnation as a living museum For many decades, in its decaying state, the ground floor of what has been described by the National Museum of...

A tour of heritage houses in Batangas, Bicol, Bulacan, and Boac Wala Lang … there’s no place like home.  Most unusual was a Taal (Batangas) bahay-na-bato that was a bahay kubo in disguise. You wouldn’t notice the masquerade from outside. The home had the usual stone-walled ground floor and...