The Pink House from another angle The Art Deco style Emralino - Rodriguez Ancestral House aka The Pink House of Sariaya. Among Sariayas fabulous ancestral houses, this is the favorite backdrop when it comes to film - making, particularly Mother Lily Monteverdes Regal Films. The original Underage movie starring Dina Bonnevie, Maricel Soriano and Snooky Serna was filmed here in 1980, and so was the 1995 Shake, Rattle and Roll episode featuring Janice de Belen eating soil, that accordingly is Milo granules. This is prominently featured in Korina Sanchezs Rated K TV Magazine show on You Tube. The house, sitting on large property that extends from the front of Mabini street to the back of the Municipio along the banks of the Mamala River was built in 1929 and was then owned by the so - called Rodriguez spinster sisters of Sariaya namely Donata, Inocencia, Antonia, Petra, Narcisa, as well as a brother named Pablo. Their other sister Rosa married into the Buendia Family. This three story mansion, originally pink in color has a twin staircase that winds separately to the north and south into the second floor living room. A big sliding door opens to a beautiful airy verandah with a view of the park ... with the Municipio, the church and the row of old ancestral houses ringing the area. On the third floor is the family mini chapel where the family used to pray. The large lawn in front was then accordingly planted to beautiful roses which the people, especially the students of the nearby St. Josephs Academy then run by foreign Franciscan Missionaries of Mary nuns buy on their way to school. Adjacent to the big house is a two story wooden edifice that served then as the servants living quarters. Belonging to the towns most affluent landed gentry, the spinster sisters in the old days were said to go to church on Sundays wearing their best fineries, down to their Porta Abanicos that accordingly gleam in the sunlight as they fan themselves. Nobody remembers who designed the house but architects from the UP College of Architecture who come every now and then to study it like Prof. Rene Luis Mata and Prof. Emilio Ozaeta, who were part of the Sariaya Community Empowerment for Sustainble Tourism Research Project from 2006 - 2010 said that the the opulent execution of its European Art Deco style can be attributed to Andres Luna de San Pedro, the son of the famous 19th century International Filipino artist Juan Luna. As the fourth edifice of its kind along with the 1931 Municipio (Juan Arellano), the 1931 Gov. Natalio Enriquez Ancestral House (Andres Luna de San Pedro) and the 1935 Gala - Rodriguez Ancestral House (Juan Nakpil), SARIAYA, according to the UP Architect Gerard P. Lico Ph D, likewise the Head of the National Commission for Architecture and the Allied Arts (NCAAA) is the Art Deco Capital of Southern Luzon ... and is accordingly, in the league with the other well known urban Art Deco centers of the Philippines like Manila, Iloilo and Cebu. Photo by Zernan Mataya
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:38:01 +0000
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