Alberto Yaptinchay HouseAlberto Yaptinchay House is a Local Cultural Property - Local Heritage Site, City of Biñan; Registered Property, City of Biñan, Laguna located at Biñan City, Laguna, Region IV-A.
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Located in Barangay San Antonio, this house is believed to be the old house of the family of Alberto Yaptinchay y Carillo-Trinidad and Macaria Gana. As the Yaptinchay household grew along with their individual wealth. Alberto’s children Guido, Pablo, Maria and Josefa moved out into their own households. Their other siblings, the couple Julia Yaptinchay and husband Don Cirilo Almeda Carlos who had no children of their own, and Bibiana Yaptinchay who was a spinster remained in this house till their deaths. The house was bequeathed to their nephew, Isidro, son of Don Guido. He was married to Francisca Morando of neighboring town San Pedro, but were with no child. This house served as a temporary Elementary School and was later on rented out to a Chinese businessman who converted it into a lumber storage and joinery. The house went down the line of Engr. Oscar L. Yaptinchay (nephew of Isidro) who were among the few Yaptinchays who remained in Biñan.
Another classic example of the transitional style of bahay-na-bato, this is a very long house with a steeply hipped roof with a flooring originally made of bamboo slats. Modifications were made to this house to accommodate the new tenants including the addition of wide floorboards into the main sala, extension of the comedor and the kitchen area, and the installation of an old wooden door from the original Guido Yaptinchay House as the entrance gate to the property. Oscar Yaptinchay’s family moved to this house immediately after its renovation (prompted by the sale of the Guido Yaptinchay House in 1981). It now serves as a repository of some of the original lighting and rare furnishings of the old Guido Yaptinchay House.