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2 unusual facts about Taft Avenue


Jose Abad Santos Memorial School

PWU-JASMS Manila acquired a new site along Indiana (now P. H. Lim) street in Malate but still maintained the (Annex) Taft Avenue facilities for the younger children.

South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium

Established in 1974, the IIC is composed of five schools located along Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines.



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Baclaran LRT Station

The station is located on the last stretches of Taft Avenue, in the Pasay City portion of Baclaran, and, like all other stations on the LRT-1, Baclaran terminal is above-ground on viaduct.

De La Salle Brothers Philippine District

In 1921, the Brothers transferred the school from its original site in Paco, Manila to the then-wooded newly constructed Taft Avenue in Malate, Manila because of the increasing school population.

Mehan Garden

The Garden is the open space off Liwasang Bonifacio (across the Philippine Post Office Main Building), bounded by Taft Avenue, LRT Central Terminal, the Metropolitan Theater, and Manila City Hall.

Taft Avenue MRT Station

The station is named after Taft Avenue, which is named after former U.S. President and US Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who served as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1901 to 1903.