In 1939, President Manuel Quezon took a stroll around Diliman and rested on a hill with associates who would figure prominently in the city’s history. Legend has it that Quezon was struck by San Mateo’s peaks to the East and the endless northward stretch of fields of grass. Those men would become statesmen, mayors and educators. That hill would become Constitutional Hill. Quezon’s aims for the new city were both grand and small. While he did intend to transfer all the branches of government away from Manila, Quezon’s mounting sympathies for the common Filipino, (a term history books have coined into the colloquial hybrid, “the common tao”) made him envision a capital built for the needs of the working man. He had a secret covenant with hundreds and thousands of workers he had never met but believed he knew. The “great and impatient” Quezon began building his dream city. He commissioned a master blueprint from architectural giants Harry T. Frost (then architectural adviser to the Commonwealth government), Former Director of Public Works, A.D. Williams, and the country’s top architect, Juan Arellano.
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