Credits to the owner FB: JR Niño Patao and Concervation Advocates of the Philippines (CAP) THE HORRIFYING ESCOLTA FIRE ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 15-16, 1881 The following is a list of the houses burned with a few details so that the persons that have been absent from this city for some time and are not familiar with some of the stores and edifices may have an idea of the location of the disaster: LEFT SIDEWALK Store, A las Modas de Paris, where the fire started, next to Matti, watchmaker, the latter located in the first door of the house of Mr. Gordoncillo. Store, La Bota de Oro (show and shirt store). Store, Las Novedades (dry goods). These three stores, which occupy many doors, were all located on the ground floor of the house built by Don Pedro Roxas in the year 1880 on the site of what used to be drab-looking posesiones rented to Chinese shoemakers; later there were a number of stores run by Europeans, like that of Guichard, the marble works of Rodoreda, the auction house of Benito Mestres, the store of Plana and Los Catalanes. On the upper floor were the offices, for years, of Señores Phillips Moore y Compañia. The new house burned yesterday showed the influence of European architecture; it had a lower floor and an upper story occupied by the Hotel de Madrid; the whole house was burned, the wooden parts of which it was largely made were fit fuel for the fire. Store, Bazar Español (goods of every description); one of the doors of the old auction house of Molina, then the auction house of Marti y Serra, next the grocery store of Estrella, and next that of Carballo, then next La Guirnalda, then the Bazar de Luzon, the Camisería Inglesa de Baxter, and Las Novedades. The upper story was for a time occupied by a Frenchman names Guité who was a gold embroiderer. Auction house and watchmaking shop of Calero, one of the doors of the old Estrella building. (a) A house in the interior where the old firm of Señores Jeny y Compañia had its offices, later occupied by Señor Charles Germann. Lately, Señores Sulzer y Compañia were the occupants; the house was burned, but a warehouse on the river bank was saved with the goods stored therein. (b) A house, under repairs... https://www.instagram.com/p/CT5dYb3B4xCn8h5YkpeAyv2H1cdnBz3yaz3YyM0/?utm_medium=tumblr