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Consunji House

ancestral house in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ5164771 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Consunji House is a heritage house in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga province in the Philippines.

History

The house was the residence of Antonio E. Consunji, the gobernadorcillo of San Fernando in 1892. He was removed from office by the ruling Spanish government because of his attendance when Jose P. Rizal visited the town in June of that year. He became the presidente municipal of San Fernando during the Philippine Revolution from 1898 to 1899.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Consunji House” as ancestral house in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Consunji, House and ancestral.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1898, 1899—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Consunji, House and ancestral providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Consunji House”, the useful work is to connect “ancestral house in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5164771. Authority coordinates are 15.026, 120.691. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1898 and 1899.

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This entry incorporates text from “Consunji House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.