The Quezon City Hall is a government building which houses the office of the

Mayor of Quezon City The mayor of Quezon City ( fil, Punong Lungsod ng Quezon) is the head of the executive branch of Quezon City's government. The mayor holds office at the Quezon City Hall. Like all local government heads in the Philippines, the mayor is elected v ...

located along the

Elliptical Road The Elliptical Road is a roundabout in Quezon City which circumscribes the Quezon Memorial Circle, a large park. It was named after its elliptical shape. The spinning in this roundabout is in a counterclockwise direction. The road is divided ...

. The Quezon City Council is housed within the adjacent Legislative Wing.

History

The first location of the city hall was at the corner of

Aurora Boulevard Aurora Boulevard is a four-to-ten lane major thoroughfare in Quezon City and San Juan in Metro Manila, Philippines. It was named after Doña Aurora Quezon, the consort of Commonwealth President Manuel Luis Quezon. It is one of the major roads in ...

and Highway 54 (now EDSA), beside Cubao Elementary School. It was then transferred within the grounds now occupied by the

Ramon Magsaysay (Cubao) High School , image = Ramon Magsaysay (Cubao) High School.svg , established = (as Quezon City High School: Cubao Annex or Cubao High School); (as Ramon Magsaysay (Cubao) High School) , principal = Ruby U. De Jesus , fa ...

sometime in the 1950s during the administration of then Acting Mayor

Ponciano Bernardo Ponciano A. Bernardo (December 2, 1905 – April 28, 1949) was a Filipino engineer and politician who served as mayor of Quezon City, holding the position from 1947 until his death in 1949. It was during his tenure that Quezon City was designated ...

, who was an engineer appointed to the political post by then-President

Manuel Roxas Manuel Acuña Roxas (born Manuel Roxas y Acuña; ; January 1, 1892 – April 15, 1948) was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of the Philippines, who served from 1946 until his death due to heart attacks in 194 ...

. In the 1949 master plan for

Quezon City Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a populatio ...

, it was planned that the Quezon City Hall would be built at the site currently occupied by the

East Avenue Medical Center The East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) is a government-owned tertiary general hospital located in Central, Quezon City, Philippines. History The EAMC was established as the GSIS General Hospital under the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS ...

. The present city hall was constructed from 1964 to 1972 and was completed under the watch of then Mayor Norberto Amoranto.

References

{{coord, 14.6468, N, 121.0500, E, source:wikidata, display=title Buildings and structures in Quezon City City and municipal halls in the Philippines Buildings and structures completed in 1972 Local government buildings in Metro Manila