San Nicolas, Manila

San Nicolas was originally a fishing town named Baybay, which is also a Tagalog word for shore.[4] Regalado Trota Jose, a historian, mentions San Nicolas in his book about bells as the formerly Baybay town during the late 16th century.[3] San Nicolas is the western part of the first Chinatown in the Philippines, and perhaps the world.[5] The eastern part of the Chinatown is Binondo, which was founded in 1594 by Governor-General Luis Perez Dasmariñas.[5] The Dominican order came to western part of Chinatown in 1596[5] and then founded San Nicolas in 1598.[3] This was the first mission by the Dominicans outside Intramuros.[3]

In 1901, during the American colonization of the Philippines, Daniel Burnham, an American architect and urban planner, was commissioned to build a Plan of Manila.[6] The result of the plan was the making of places and parishes that included San Nicolas.[7] In modern times, San Nicolas is one of the administrative districts of Manila and part of the third legislative district of Manila.[8] It became an extension of the Filipino-Chinese community in Binondo.[9]

• Barrio de San Nicolas—Calle de Ylang-Ylang, watercolor by José Honorato Lozano, n.d.

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  Ancestral house
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  Ancestral house
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  Ancestral house
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  Ancestral house
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  Arch of Solidarity
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  Fire Station
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  Jose Abad Santos High School
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  Justice Jose Abad Santos General Hospital

• San Nicolas Fire Station, Manila