| Father Burgos House | |
| Coordinates: | 17.5756°N 120.3858°W |
| Location City: | Vigan, Ilocos Sur |
| Location Country: | Philippines |
| Completion Date: | 1788 |
The Father Burgos House, built in 1788,[1] is a historic house in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.[2] It was the residence of the Filipino Catholic priest Jose Burgos (1837–1872),[3] a leader of the secularization movement, referring to the full incorporation of Filipino priests into the Catholic hierarchy in the Philippines, which was dominated by Spanish friars in the past.[4] Alongside two other Filipino priests, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora, Burgos was arrested on false charges of sedition and incitement of the Cavite mutiny and executed in 1872.[5]
The Father Burgos House is an example of an early bahay-na-bato house architecture that is built smaller and closer to the ground, than the later versions found in Vigan and elsewhere.[6]
Typical of the bahay-na-bato, the wood-framed upper level was where the family lived; it would be reached through a grand wooden staircase rising from the zaguan, a carriageway running from a huge wooden entrance door on the ground floor. The rest of the stone-walled ground floor was used for storage.[7]
Burgos' house serves as a museum. It has one of the original copies of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere.[8] The house also displays 19th-century paintings by the Ilocano painter Esteban Villanueva of the 1807 Basi Revolt.
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines installed a historical marker on the house's façade in 1939.