Decolonial Subject

Casa Grande - Mayagüez - 2011 00029

View of the living room and rooms in Casa Grande, located in Mayagüez. This space is distinguished by having the wooden floor, a chandelier lamp and a door with fanlight window that gives access to two other rooms. In the living room and the adjacent room there is a table and a chair made of wood with elizabethan style and turned legs, similar to a baluster. Above the table stand out three busts, as well as a vase and a candle holder. On the wall there are four paintings from the portrait genre. In the background, through one of the doors you can see the headboard of a pillar bed. This house was built in 1890 and its characteristics are typical from the Native Neoclassic architectural style. Its solid construction, mainly made of masonry, withstood the San Fermín earthquake that took place on October 11, 1918. This house is historically important since it also housed the Sede de la Audiencia de Mayagüez and, after the sovereignty change in 1898, passed into private hands. In 1901 it was already the property of don Guillermo Santos, who inherited it to his daughter, Isabel Santos Tió, she was married to don Benigno Rodríguez Campoamor, the Spain vice-consul in Puerto Rico. In 1998, the municipal administration of Mayagüez acquired this house and restored it as a museum, exhibition hall, centre of book presentations and for the sociocultural development of the city. Since then it has been known as the Casa Grande, Museo y Casa Cultural.