Hacienda Rosalia

Hacienda Rosalia

Gaston Mansion
Established 1930 (1930)
Location Manapla, Negros Occidental, Philippines
Coordinates 10°54′43″N 123°08′47″E / 10.9120°N 123.1464°E / 10.9120; 123.1464Coordinates: 10°54′43″N 123°08′47″E / 10.9120°N 123.1464°E / 10.9120; 123.1464
Type Local museum, ancestral house
Owner Jose Gaston
Website https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gaston-Mansion-Hacienda-Sta-Rosalia-Manapla/341788559245577
Building details
Alternative names The Chapel of the Cartwheels, Gaston Mansion
General information
Status Complete
Type House
Architectural style Victorian architecture
Town or city Manapla Negros Occidental
Country Philippines
Current tenants Msgr. Guillermo “Gigi” Gaston
Construction started 1930s

Hacienda Rosalia, also known as Hacienda Santa Rosalia, is a compound where the ancestral home mansion of Gaston family and the Church of Cartwheels are located. It is situated in Manapla, Negros Occidental, Philippines. The mansion was built in 1930s.

History

Gaston Mansion, Manapla

Hacienda Rosalia is a former sugar plantation owned by Jose Gaston, one of the sons of Yves Leopold Germain Gaston, a sugar baron of Negros.[1] He is credited as the first to commercially produce cane sugar, the primary product of the province. He was married to Consuelo Ascona and had 8 children. The Gaston Mansion was built in the 1930s. It is set in lush, verdant and gorgeous garden of flowers, shrubs, trees, potted palms and herbs. Within the grounds are a now-disused swimming pool (used as hiding place during World War II), a Victorian fountain, a pond and a time-worn shoe house (which was used before as a playground).[2]

Media

Hacienda Rosalia is also been used as a setting and location shoot for films most notable of which is the 1981 epic Oro, Plata, Mata.[1]

House of Gaston

The house of Gaston's eldest son is now has a museum open to the public and is fondly called the Balay Negrense (Hiligaynon, "The Negrense House") and was originally the ancestral house of Victor F. Gaston.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Tejero, C.C. (25 December 2016). "The story of Negros laid bare in the ancestral houses of Bacolod and environs". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.benjielayug.com/2014/04/the-gaston-mansion-manapla-negros-occidental.html
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