Photo of the Lipa Public Market [October 1913, BPW Quarterly Bulletin]

This photograph is part of a series showing construction projects undertaken by the Bureau of Public Works during the American colonial era. All photographs have been digitally extracted from the Quarterly Bulletins of the bureau.

The photograph below is from the October 1913¹ edition of the quarterly bulletin and captioned: “Lipa (Batangas) market. (Block of reinforced concrete tiendas, on left, under construction.)”

This type of market is described as with “a central bay having a trussed roof span and two-side lean-to bays, supported on four lines of columns. Lean-to bays are continuous around both ends of the building, thus enclosing the central bay.”

The market’s dimensions were placed at 21 x 43 meters and funding for its construction included ₱20,000.00 by way of loan from the Insular (or colonial) Government and ₱5,000 as appropriation from the municipal government of Lipa.

¹ “Bureau of Public Works Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 2 No. 3,” compiiled by C.A. Tansill, published October 1913 in Manila by the Bureau of Public Works.