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Ayuntamiento (Seat of Old Manila City Council), Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

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AYUNTAMIENTO (CASAS CONSISTORIALES) - Here once stood Ayuntamiento (Casas Consistoriales). Seat of City Council of Manila. First structure built from 1599 to 1607. Severely damaged in the earthquakes of 1645 and 1658. Demolished to make way for new building. Second building constructed in 1735. Destroyed in 1863 earthquake. Reconstruction by military engineer Eduardo Lopez Navarro begun in 1879 and completed in 1844. Became headquarters of the 8th U.S. Army Corps in 1901. Site of sessions of the First Philippine Assembly in 1907 and Philippine Legislature in 1935. Housed the offices of the Bureau of Justice and Supreme Court during the American and Commonwealth period. Destroyed in the Battle of Manila in 1945. ~~~Taken from this location's signage

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