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• Conservation is the processes of looking after a place so as to retain its cultural significance.
• Conservation Management Plan (CMP) sets out what is significant about a place and from this, what policies are appropriate to enable that significance to be retained as part of its future use and development.
• CMP deals with the ongoing care of a place.
• The conservation process consists of stages: Understanding the Place, Assessing Significance, Identifying Factors and Issues, Developing Policies or Actions to Conserve and Sustain Significance, Implementing Policies or Actions, Monitoring, Maintaining and Reviewing.
• Diplomat Hotel is a place of cultural significance that requires conservation management.
• Diplomat Hotel was constructed in 1930.
• Conservation is all STAGE 1: about understanding a place, STAGE 2: assessing its significance, STAGE 3: identifying factors and issues, STAGE 4: developing policies or actions to conserve and sustain significance, STAGE 5: implementing policies or actions, STAGE 6: monitoring, maintaining and reviewing.
• Conservation Management Plan (CMP) is a document that sets out what is significant about a place and from this, what policies are appropriate to enable that significance to be retained as part of its future use and development.
• On May 17, 1911, the Councils of the Province of the Dominican Order approved the construction of a vacation house in Baguio City on a 17-hectare property acquired from the Philippine Sugar Estate, Dominican Hill.
• On November 11, 1911, Roque Ruano submitted the plans of the retreat house to the Order Hospice, which were subsequently approved.
• Work on the retreat house began in 1913 with Roque Ruano as the supervising architect.
• Roque Ruano (August 16, 1877-March 5, 1935) was a Spanish priest and civil engineer who designed the Dominican House in Baguio in 1913-1915.
• The Dominican House was partially completed as a two-storey edifice with 36 cells and 3 central chapels in 1914.
• The retreat house was completed in 1915 at a cost of 200,000 pesos (approximately 300 million in today's currency).
• On May 12, 1915, Colegio del Santissimo Rosario, a seminary, was established in the Dominican House.
• The Bldg was formally Inaugurated on May 23, 1915 and was blessed by Rey Bishop Pedro Hunt.
• In 1947, the Dominican suffered extensive damage and reconstruction began under the Diocese of Vigan.
• The Sanitorium, a rest house for tired and ailing priests, was established in June 1915 as part of the Dominican order.
• On October 27, 1938, an allocation was made for the renovation of the Dominican.
• During the Japanese occupation, the Dominican served as a refuge for Baguio residents and was supervised by the Japanese.
• Reconstruction of the Dominican was completed in 1948.
• Heritage character is defined as the distinguishing elements that contribute to the unique identity of a place.
• Heritage value is the monetary worth of a heritage place.
• A heritage place is compromising if it demands a program of intervention.
• A heritage place is demanding if it requires a program of intervention.
• A heritage place is new use if it is put to a new purpose.
• A heritage place is rehabilitated if it has undergone changes.
• A heritage place is reversible if it can be restored to its original condition.
• Ethereal is marked by unusual delicacy or refinement, afterword delicate and light.
• In 1945, the Japanese took over the Dominican hill headquarters of the Japanese.
• The Battle for liberation of the Dominican took place in January 1945.
• In May 1946, Fr. Galo stayed for 11 days and there was a corpse in the underground water reservoir.