[1] The house was built in 1870 and was presented to Doña Gliceria Marella y Legaspi on the occasion of their marriage in 1871.

[1] Although the house was lived in by Don Jose Villavicencio, Doña Gliceria's son, until his death in the 1980s, no major repair was done on the house during his occupancy, except for the time of his death; the original hand-painted canvas walls had faded by then, with any traces of the original paintings.

The sagging and leaking roof was repaired, the post was jacked up and reinforced, and the rotten floorboards replaced.

With the help of Martin I. Tinio Jr., the walls of the upper floor were painted in the style of the 1870s, using colors typical of that period.

The walls of the entire house, including the second floor except the front, are built of adobe blocks.

The neo-Gothic ogee arches are carved on the main double doors replicated those in the older Villavicencio House.

A door on the left opened to the central garden with a tone stairway at the end leading up to the azotea.

The left zaguan door also serve as a tradesman's entrance to the large and spacious concerns of the Villavicencio's.