Pablo Potenciano-Feliza Almeda HousePablo Potenciano-Feliza Almeda House is a Registered Property, City of Biñan, Laguna located at Biñan City, Laguna, Region IV-A.
Altered on original site.
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Architectural opulence best describes this ancestral house built on a 1,231 square meter lot along Don Jacobo Gonzales Street. The house is a combination of the geometric and organic styles in the Philippines architecture. Built a transitional Bahay-na-bato style, it is a very long house with steeply hipped roofand celling made of sawali (woven split bamboo mats). Floral elements are articulated in carved rococo garlands modeled above the sliding windows. Originally made of capiz, the windows were changed to colored glass panes in the chic Victorian style. Adobe walls about sixty centimeters thick help support the wooden frames of the second floor. The façade is highlighted by four engaged columns with pilasters that decorate the ground floor stone walls and are followed up to the second storey by smaller versions in wood. The corner pilasters are fluted and have a base of almost a meter high.
This property is belonged to Don Pablo Potenciano y Gana who married Doña Feliza Almeda Garcia. Don Pablo Served as a Kapitan of Biñan in 1889. He died in 1941 and the ownership was passed on to his son Dr. Conrado Potenciano, who graduated with a medical degree at the University of Santo Tomas and practiced his profession in Manila. He later came to be well known for being a specialist in the treatment of tuberculosis and was the founder of the polymedic General Hospital. The house remains to be a common property of the heirs of Dr. Conrado Potenciano.