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The Jusay Ancestral House is a historic house located in the Sampaloc neighborhood of Manila, in the Philippines. It was originally the home of the late couple Dr. Fernando Jusay and Rustica Palma which was eventually passed on to their late son Jose Jusay . The house was also called "The Door House" because it has so many doors inside. It was built in the early 1920s and its interiors as well as the exteriors are made of narra wood. Galvanized iron sheet was used as roofing and the wall found outside the house is made of cement. According to the wife of the late Jose Jusay, Melody Urbano-Jusay, the two-storey house used to have five rooms, two bathrooms, dirty kitchen and a kitchen at the second floor and a basement with a secret passage which is now covered with cement due to road elevations that took place throughout the years.