A visit to another old, historic Mansion in the Molo area of Iloilo City. An old dilapidated mansion which may eventually disappear if someone does not step up to save it and soon.

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photographed and written by: Fergus Ducharme, assisted by: Joemarie Acallar and Nilo Jimeno.
proudly present:
The old, historic and rundown
Sanson Mansion,
Baluarte, Molo, Iloilo City
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The driving distance from our jumping off point at the
SM City parking lot in Iloilo to the Sanson Mansion in
Baluarte, Molo, Iloilo City is approximately 11
kilometres. Which translates into a driving time of
about 20 to 30 minutes.
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Our exploration of old, historical homes took us to Molo, this past week
and we explored, to the extent possible, three prime examples of what we
were looking for.
Our first 'victim' was the Yusay-Consing Mansion facing the Church of St
Anne from across the Molo Plaza.
Our second, the former Sanson Home was a little farther down Lopez
Jaena Street in Baluarte and, to our surprise, we found that we were not
very welcome by the residents of the property.
Given the condition of the place, we, perhaps, should not have been too
surprised by their reaction to us arriving on their door step.

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We knocked at the ominous looking metal gate and waited and waited. Eventually a
dishevelled middle aged “gentleman” came to answer our calls.
Nilo, in his usual 'laid back' style, told the man why we were there and what we
hoped to accomplish. He asked for permission to enter the property and to take
some pictures.
The “gentleman's” response was, to be generous, unprintable. Now, as most of our
followers know I am not fortunate enough to speak or even understand your
language but I knew from the man's tone and the volume of what turned out to be
his rejection of our request that he was not pleased. Maybe the slamming of the
gate in Nilo's face should have been enough of an indication.
I believe strongly in the dictum: “never give up, never, ever give up...” So, Nilo and I
pressed on. The gate was not locked and after being slammed in our face it sort of
inched its way open enough for us to squeeze into the opening enough to allow us
to take a few shots, rather quickly, in case our “new friend” decided to come back.
He didn't, we were home free!

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This is what we found:

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