The Bulacan Provincial Capitol is the seat of the provincial government of

Bulacan Bulacan, officially the Province of Bulacan ( tl, Lalawigan ng Bulacan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Malolos. Bulacan was established on August 15, 1578, and part of the Me ...

in the

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History

The Bulacan Provincial Capitol was built in 1930 during the administration of Bulacan Governor José Padilla Sr. on a parcel of land donated by Spanish American Antonio Bautista. The capitol was destroyed during

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but was rebuilt in June 1950 under the tenure of Governor Fortunato Halili. The building was closed in August 2017 for a major renovation which was completed in 2018 under Governor

Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado Wilhelmino "Willy" Manucdoc Sy-Alvarado (born December 29, 1946) is a Filipino politician and businessman serving as the Governor of Bulacan, governor of Bulacan from 2010 to 2019. He previously served as a Lieutenant governor, Vice Governor o ...

Architecture and design

The Bulacan Provincial Capitol was designed by Filipino architect

Juan Arellano Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmán (April 25, 1888 – December 5, 1960), or Juan M. Arellano, was a Filipino architect, best known for Manila's Metropolitan Theater (1935), Legislative Building (1926; now houses the National Museum of F ...

and is an example of

Art deco architecture Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United ...

. The capitol's compound is named as the Antonio S. Bautista Provincial Capitol Compound. The 2018 renovation saw the installation of a LED board on top of the capitol's signage and the conversion of its triangular

pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedim ...

to a

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References

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