BAIS CITY POLITICAL HISTORY

Baisanon Historian : Prof. Penn Tulabing Larena, CPS,MPA, KCR Photo by : Hon.  Thirdy Bouffard  and Sir    Lloyd R. Dionson The Gabaldon School Buildings or simply known as the Gabaldon's is a term used to refer to heritage school buildings in the Philippines built during the American colonial era               Sen.  Isauro Gabaldon These were the Commonwealth-era school buildings that were made possible by R.A. No. 1801, a bill Gabaldón had authored as a member of the Philippine Assembly in 1907. The early-20th-century bill ensured that a million pesos would be allocated to the building of schoolhouses (especially in the provinces) to go alongside the newly-implemented free public education system. The buildings were then designed by American architect William Parsons, who had also been the architect behind the Paco Railroad Station and the first Manila Hotel. As the Gabaldon School Buildings Conservation Act notes, the school buildings have a unique infrastructure: “these-