THE LAPERAL WHITE HOUSE 

THEN AND NOW
Location: Leonard Wood Rd., Baguio Benguet 
Wayback 1960’s

DID YOU KNOW?!
*The Laperal Guesthouse popularly known as “Laperal White House” (which houses a museum)
*The house was built by Robert Laperal in the 1920’s
*The house is made of narra and halal wood designed in victorian style
*The clan heads, Robert and Victorina Laperal made the house as their vacation home
*During WWII, the house was occupied by Japanese soldiers and was used as a garrison
*The house transferred ownership after the death of the head of the Laperal clan
*It was adequately maintained but despite being closed to the public over the years
*The house withstood many natural and man made casualities such as the deadly earthquake in 1990
*Lucio Tan purchased the property in 2007 (but never stayed in the place during some of his trips to baguio)
*He instead had it renovated and refurbished with proper maintenance then made it into a tourist attraction
*In 2013, the Tycoon’s Tan Yan Kee Foundation transformed the house to a Bamboo Foundation museum where filipino artworks based on bamboo and wood
*According to believers, the house is Haunted
*the 2010 horror movie White House featured the house
*today, the house is one of popularly tourist attractions in baguio