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> Bataan’s word association is Death March first and Nuclear Power Plant next. A third could be “Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar,” a mirage between rice fields and the China Sea with cobblestone streets, a stretch of 1890s Escolta and a clutch of 80-170 years old homes—dismantled, trucked to Bagac, and lovingly reassembled back to life. The oldest is the vast Reyes-Pelayo house of Candaba, Pampanga (built in 1839) and pandora charms the most recent are the Art Deco 1930s Arrastia and Esquivel homes respectively from Lubao, Pampanga and Jaén, Nueva Ecija. The former was the family home of Ambassador to the Vatican Mercy Tuason and Madrid socialite Isabel Preysler. The latter belonged to political kingpins and still bears bullet holes, souvenirs of a botched assassination attempt. Most people collect things like stamps and bottles. A few collect old maps and santos. But old houses? Bataan-born Jerry Acuzar of New San Jose Builders has been collecting them. It started with an antique-style beach house using recycled materiales fuertes. One thing led to another and now Jerry has 23 genuinely old houses — about half a dozen from Manila, more from the central plain, and the rest from all over Luzon.We’re talking here of catalog printing mansions, not nipa huts. The 1880s Enriquez house from Quiapo was one of the grandest in 19th century Manila’s aristocratic district—the first home, BTW, of the UP College of Fine Arts. By 2000, it was a wreck with dozens of small businesses and families. Large rooms had been partitioned into dark and airless cubicles, narra flooring and staircase gone, windows broken. It’s now in Bagac, restored to its old splendor.Casa Vizantina (built 1890) has the same story. A magnificent three-storey house at the corner of Madrid and Peñarubia in Binondo often featured in heritage books, it had become a tenement with 80 resident families. Everything was collapsing and decorative parts were disappearing. Now, the place stands proudly with its arched windows, elaborate grilles, wide staircase, hardwood floors, gilded capitals.Each house has a tale. The Escoto-Urrutia house, was built in replica clothing Pampanga in 1913 but was moved to Meycauayan, Bulacan. Its journey to Bagac, therefore, is its second.The Maxino house from Unisan, Quezon has a charming pink exterior, a curvy tile roof and spectacular three-foot wide and 30-foot long floor planks. In its tragic past, the owner’s entire family was massacred by tulisans who didn’t notice a little girl trembling inside a used clothes hamper.The Novicios, maternal ancestors of General Antonio and painter Juan Luna, owned the house in Namacpacan (now Luna), La Union. Built by true Ilocanos, the staircase is steep, ceilings low, rooms small, but with beautifully carved doors and a volada all around.GMA 7 telebabads will recognize Las Casas Filipinas as Zorro country, in real life a most remarkable resort that has the atmosphere of our gracious past, beautiful beach, spa (within a pair of Cagayan Valley homes), fresh water pool, conference rooms, carruaje rides, and unexpectedly, sculptures like boys at palo sebo.Comments are cordially invited, addressed to .
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