Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol — Attraction in Bacolod

Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol City of Bacolod, Negros Occidental

The Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol Building followed Daniel Burnham's Beaux Art style. When William Cameron Forbes was the governor general in the Philippines in 1904, he invited Burnham to the country, who, in turn, recommended as consulting architect to the government William E. Parsons. When he arrived in 1905, Parsons established the architectural office of the Bureau of Public Works which was composed of American and Filipino architects, such as Juan Nakpil, Tomas Mapua, and Juan de Guzman Arellano. Using the neo-classical architectural design of Burnham for the capitol, Juan Arellano executed the project.

The building is built in a shape of the letter E composed of the main entrance, which is the middle part, and of the wings on both sides of the center. The prominent feature of the central section are wide steps that lead to colonnades of about three-story high and with Corinthian capitals on the upper portion. The works of National Artist for Sculpture Guillermo Tolentino are displayed in the capitol building and the lagoon fronting the building.

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This landmark building is the seat of the provincial government of Negros Occidental. It's a lovely building in the Beaux-Art style, albeit with the oversized sculpture that typically adorn such buildings.

The building is more or less open to the public, even foreigners. The guards let me wander around the 1st floor, but the upper floor was out of bounds. The ground floor contains several administrative offices and portraits of past governors and vice-governors.

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The provincial capitol building is already a century old. You can see the beauty of its architecture is influenced by our colonizers. Aside from this, in front of it is their park where there is a huge lagoon-like water. Around it, in the early morning, people do jogging and...