Lumang Bahay

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CULTURA TROPICAL on Instagram: “Bahay Kubo\Nipa Hut Traditional house Philippines Circa 1900 14°N Bahay kubo is considered as a cultural heritage, a symbol of…”

Lovely Timber home on Negros

A picture from a group of Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives listed as “Philippine schools and other subjects, 1900”. No other identification or location is given with the individual pictures. The scanned resolution is poor where many of the signs cannot be read. I do believe but not entirely sure that the pictures in the folder are all from the Manila area. Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives

Sitio Remedios is located in small town Currimao, province of Ilocos Norte in the Philippines. By air it is accessible from Laoag International Airport via Laoag-Paoay-Currimao Road or via the...

Rural Scene ( Bahay Kubo ) By Cesar Buenaventura

The Nipa hut (Bahay Kubo) is one of the older forms of housing in the Philippines. It is made with materials such as bamboo, coconut wood, cogon grass, and nipa palm leaves and coconut fronds as roof thatching. Most huts are built on stilts due to frequent flooding during the rainy season.