The Quezon Heritage House
The Quezon House, formerly located in Gilmore Street in New Manila, has been transferred to the Quezon Memorial Circle. During the Commonwealth period, it was where President Manuel Quezon occasionally recuperated from tuberculosis, at a time when the New Manila District was a rustic and idyllic countryside. The house had gone through many changes and accretions over the years. And with the pressure of urbanization, the house gradually lost its context, use and meaning. When the family decided to sell the property, and while in the process of development, the heirs decided to donate the residence to the QC Local Government for the latter to develop it into a museum. The transfer to its new location will provide the house a new future as it will be interpreted in better perspective by the Filipino people.
The Quezon House is historically significant because it is associated to the lifestyle and health of the Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon. The only residence in the city he founded. Although the house is not architecturally outstanding, the original structure, divested of its accretions, reflects the country /rehabilitation house architecture of the American period and the family life of the former President.
The Quezon House is historically significant because it is associated to the lifestyle and health of the Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon. The only residence in the city he founded. Although the house is not architecturally outstanding, the original structure, divested of its accretions, reflects the country /rehabilitation house architecture of the American period and the family life of the former President.