Molo Mansion: Caught Between Preservation and Commercialization

The Yusay Consing Ancestral House, originally known as the Lacson Yusay Ancestral House and now popularly called the Molo Mansion, rises with quiet grace at the heart of Iloilo’s historic district. This neoclassical art deco heritage house stands as one of the finest architectural treasures in the region. Built in 1926 by Doña Petra Lacson, a respected matron of the Lacson clan, together with her husband Estanislao Yulo Yusay, a prominent lawyer and judge from Molo, the mansion embodied the social stature and refined taste of the family who lived within its walls. The couple raised ten children in the mansion, filling it with life, music, family gatherings, and the everyday rhythms of an elite household in early twentieth century Iloilo.