The family of Mariano Ramos was forced to retreat to the nearby municipality of Murcia, where they spent most of their time during the war era.

It took time to rebuild the city after liberation Don Mariano were saved from destruction by the retreating Japanese forces On a short stretch of Burgos Street,[2] once known as "Millionaires' Row",[3] still stands several grand houses belonging to some of the richest and landed families of Bacolod City.

In 1935, he commissioned a certain Architect Mendoza of Manila to design and build a house for him in the Castilian and Tuscan style.

The most prominent feature of the house is the three-storey octagonal tower that gave the owners a panoramic view of the city and the surrounding landscape.

[citation needed] Legendary in those days were his twenty or more cars of different makes chauffeured by Spanish mestizo and Filipino drivers.