At the corner of Eskolta and William Burke Street in Santa Cruz district of Manila rises a magnificent house in neo-classical style - Regina Building, built in 1934. Its architect was the son of Juan Luna Andres Luna de San Pedro. The building is surrounded by streams and flows right behind him Estero de la Reina - maybe that's the name of this building and the creek got its name.

Regina Building was originally built as a commercial building. Since 1934, there has always been one of the first Philippine insurance companies - «Provident Insurance Corporation». Later, the family bought the building De Leon, who added to his fourth floor and held a small reconstruction under the leadership of Fernando Ocampo, a pioneer of the Philippine Art Nouveau architecture.

Despite the change of the owner, the building continued to be a commercial - it is still housed offices of insurance companies, as well as the district of Santa Cruz was in those years the main financial center of Manila. Today there are offices of freight forwarding companies.

It is said that Regina Building was one of the first buildings in the Philippines, built of reinforced concrete - the technology of the islands, exposed to frequent earthquakes, introduced Americans. From America and was brought to the original architectural style, which carried out the building - a mix of neo-classical and Art Deco. In the same style built in Manila Central Post Office, the National Museum and the Department of Finance and Tourism.