Father Burgos House | |
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General information | |
Town or city | Vigan, Ilocos Sur |
Country | Philippines |
Coordinates | 17°34′32″N 120°23′09″E / 17.57557°N 120.38581°E |
Completed | 1788 |
The Father Burgos House, built in 1788, [1] is a historic house in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines. [2] It was the residence of the Filipino Catholic priest Jose Burgos (1837–1872), [3] a leader of the secularization movement, referring to the full incorporation of Filipino priests into the Catholic hierarchy in the Philippines, which was dominated by Spanish friars in the past. [4] Alongside two other Filipino priests, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora, Burgos was arrested on false charges of sedition and incitement of the Cavite mutiny and executed in 1872. [5]
The Father Burgos House is an example of an early bahay-na-bato house architecture that is built smaller and closer to the ground, than the later versions found in Vigan and elsewhere. [6]
Typical of the bahay-na-bato, the wood-framed upper level was where the family lived; it would be reached through a grand wooden staircase rising from the zaguan, a carriageway running from a huge wooden entrance door on the ground floor. The rest of the stone-walled ground floor was used for storage. [7] [6]
Burgos' house serves as a museum. It has one of the original copies of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. [8] The house also displays 19th-century paintings by the Ilocano painter Esteban Villanueva of the 1807 Basi Revolt. [7]
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines installed a historical marker on the house's façade in 1939. [3]