LAPERAL Apartments Building 

BEFORE AND AFTER 
Location: Claro M. Recto Ave., Sampaloc Manila 
Wayback 2003

DID YOU KNOW?!
*Laperal Apartments was built in 1946 (after WWII) by the cousin of Laperals (who built the famous haunted Laperal House in Baguio, and the Arlegui guesthouse in Malacañang)
*The four-storey building was designed in the then popular Art Deco Style Building along Recto Manila
*The apartments were built to attract alta sociedad owners
*Was a spacious unit with heavy, solid narra doors subway tiles and claw foot tubs
*But as Manila’s Business Centers transferred to Makati, the occupants of the apartments sought other living arrangements
*The apartments much like many of manila’s old buildings and landmarks were left unused and abandoned
*It was looted of all architectural pieces that could be carried away and it has changed with the time
*The owners started and decided to return it back to its primary purpose to laperal useful to the community once again
*It was first done on the main building and little of the building was Restored
*Filling the space of the original back building ,The L.A. Village was built to be a hipster’s haven
*The owner originally planned on bringing in a WWII plane- but settled for this authentic german fighter plane from WWI instead, everything about it is real and restored except for the propeller and no more guns
*Today., Laperal Apartments transformation into the already known as “LAPERAL YOUNIVERSITY SUIT”