Datu Lubay House

The Datu Lubay Center is now being renovated. I have sequestered a house my family has inherited from an unmarried grandmother. This house by the corner of Gobierno and Progreso streets was owned by our great grandparents Emiliano Delos Santos and Felicitas Esguerra. It has been left in almost decrepit condition, although still habitable.

We started with fixing the roof yesterday. Today, the carpenters are fixing the overhang for the lower windows and the latticework for the upper windows fronting Gobierno streets. Next we shall repaint it to make it more cheerful, and start remodelling the ground floor for our office and work shops. I still upstairs for the meantime.

The Datu Lubay House shall be the home of the Datu Lubay Doll Collection; eventually we shall turn it into a children's museum. It is a quite ambitious project, but we are optimistic we could do it. We already have outlined the modules for the exhibits. Eventually there will be an extension for the entrance side facing Progreso street.


This is how the house looks now. The carpenters have torn down the window eaves above the lower windows.

The carpenters fixing the roof.

The facade along Gobierno Street. We are fixing the windows and repainting the walls a cheerful yellow. This house shall soon be the Datu Lubay House.