This is a work that combines historical description of Philippine domestic architecture, urban history, and portraiture of the turn-of-the-century urban Filipino family. The focus of the study is trained on a house and a district: Casa Gorordo, the 19th-century residence associated with the family of the late Cebuano Bishop Juan Gorordo (1862–1934), and the district in which it is found, the parian of Cebu.