Calvo Building

The Calvo Building is a historic building along no. 266 Escolta corner Soda Streets, Binondo, Manila, Philippines. Built in 1938, owned by Doña Emiliana Mortera vda. De Calvo and Angel Calvo, it is an outstanding mix of Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical architecture, designed by Fernando H. Ocampo. Being in one of Manila's business districts, it served as the home of many businesses and establishments. It was the home of radio station Robert La Rue "Uncle Bob" Stewart's Republic Broadcasting System, a precursor of DZBB-AM and GMA Network. Other businesses that occupied the building are as follows:

Philippine Bank of Commerce Sabater Optical Luisa & Sons, a pre-war soda fountain house Aquino & Lichauco Attorneys-at-Law Araneta & Company MARECO Recording Studio LR Villar Music Store Sorriente-Santos retail department store chain- originator of the "Buy-one, Take-one" Torino Restaurant Peacock Garden Syyap's Inc. Botica de Sta. Cruz Esso & Company Inc. The Idol Shop Wah Yuen Hotpot & Seafood Restaurant Filipino Theatrical Enterprises During the Japanese occupation, it was used by the Japanese Imperial forces. It was damaged in the Liberation of Manila in 1945, and was restored in 1946. Today it houses UNO Restaurant, Mercury Drug Store, Tropical Hut and the Escolta Commercial Association. It also contains one of the country's oldest brass-cage Otis elevators. It is also known to be the only building in prewar Escolta to be recessed from the street, as it was a Tranvia flagstop.

It now houses the Calvo Building Museum which contains memorabilia from the country's specially Manila's prewar commerce and industry, early theater and entertainment, early printing and ephemera, artifacts from the Manila Carnival and other vestiges of the city's storied past. A historical marker was installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines on August 14, 2018.