[2] Don Bernardino and Doña Ysabel Lopez Ledesma were originally from Jaro, Iloilo City and migrated to Silay, Negros Occidental where they eventually settled and raised their children.

The portion of the street right in front of the Jalandoni House is narrower than the rest of the highway because a group of Silaynons fought for the preservation of the heritage houses when a road expansion project threatened to demolish these old structures, which included the ancestral home of the Jalandonis.

[5] The design of the Jalandoni House, with its square shape elevated by posts or stilts and roof construction, It is a Bahay na Bato which based from the structure of a typical nipa hut in the Philippines although the former is larger in scale than the latter.

[clarification needed] The two-storey house is made of balayong, a hardwood that had to be shipped by the Jalandonis from Mindoro.

The living room and receiving area display an old Steinway piano, a gramophone, a sewing machine, an old telephone, and several paintings.