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National Museum assumes control of historic ‘Malacañang of Negros’
The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) will spearhead the complete restoration of the ancestral house of General Aniceto Lacson, a key figure in the Negrense revolt.
The heirs of the revolutionary hero formally donated the 144-year-old ancestral house, built around 1880, to the NMP on November 5, the 126th anniversary of the Al Cinco de Noviembre revolt.
The ancestral house, dubbed the "Malacañang of Negros" in 1898, served as the presidential residence and government seat during the short-lived Republica Cantonal de Negros.
General Aniceto Lacson, a prominent sugar baron and statesman, was the first and only president of the Negros Republic.
The house, a two-story mansion built in the Spanish-colonial Filipino architectural style, was declared a national historic landmark in 2002 by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
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