Wooden House in Las Marías

Description

Wooden house in a rural area of Las Marías. It is built on stilts and has a gable roof. The roofs seem to be in bad shape and are covered by scraps of materials. One of the houses has a small ladder leading to the entrance. There are clothes drying in a wire fence.

Origin Name	Box 426, Folder 2, Photo 4734
Relation	San Juan National Historic Site (NPS) > San Juan NHS Resource Records Collection > Series VIII Visual Materiales 1788-2017, Subseries B Photographs 1890 - 2011 > Box 426 - Folder 2 - 1898 Collection (15) - 1898
Geographical Coverage	Las Marías
Date	1898
Descriptive Notes	Title assigned by the cataloging team. The general description, date, or geographical coverage has information furnished by the San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico.
Historical Background	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries Housing in Puerto Rico: Rural Housing
Architectural Subject	Rural areas Houses Plank houses Stilts (structural elements) Hinged doors Hinged windows Gable doors Clothesline Fences Ladders
Decolonial Subject	Domestic Work Ancestral Knowledge
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image