Davao City Hall
city hall building of Davao City
The Davao City Hall is a government building which houses the office of the Mayor of Davao City.
History
The Davao City Hall structure was built in 1926 when Davao City was still a municipality. The building's design was used as inspiration by Juan M. Arellano in designing the municipal hall of Concepcion, Tarlac, which was erected in 1929.
Davao formally attained cityhood through the Commonwealth Act No. 51 on October 16, 1936, during the presidency of Manuel L. Quezon. Davao's inauguration as a city was held on March 1, 1937.
The Davao City Hall was destroyed during World War II in 1945 and restored in 1947 based on its original design.
In 2017, the wooden flooring and door which is a legacy of the 1926 structure was renovated. The flooring was replaced by concrete and steel.
In celebration of the centennial year in 2026, the facade of the Davao City Hall was repainted back to its original white color.
“Davao City Hall” enters the record as city hall building of Davao City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Davao, City and Hall can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28937451. Authority coordinates are 7.064, 125.608. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926, 1929, 1936 and 1937.
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This entry incorporates text from “Davao City Hall” 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.