Photo of Municipal Building in Bauan [1931, BPW Annual Report]
This photograph is part of a series showing mostly construction projects undertaken by the Bureau of Public Works during the American colonial era. All photographs have been digitally extracted from the Quarterly Bulletins1 of the bureau and processed using graphics editing software to improve quality. It goes without saying that the eventual output of each extract was always going to be dependent on the quality of the original scan.
Among these aforementioned projects was the construction of the Municipal Building, called presidencia at the time, in the town of Bauan. About this new building, the 1931 Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of Public Works had this to say:
Bauan Presidencia, Batangas Province. — This is a one-story concrete building of special design, with a central pavilion and two wings. The construction of the building is under contract by Tan Chiao Tee and Co. for ₱47,000. The work was 40 per cent completed at the close of the year.
Notes and references:
1 “Bureau of Public Works Annual Report, Volume 19 No. 1,” published January 1931 in Manila by the Bureau of Public Works.