Wooden House in Arecibo

Description

Wooden house in a rural area of Aguada. It is built on stilts with a gable zinc roof, and above it, there is an antenna and various stones. In front of it, some clotheslines with drying clothes as well as a palm tree can be seen.

Origin Name	Box 444, Folder 15, Photo 4729
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 444 - Folder 15 - Architecture - 1859-1996
Geographical Coverage	Aguada
Date	1939
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: Twentieth Century (1898-1940) Housing in Puerto Rico: Rural Housing
Architectural Subject	Townships Rural areas Houses Plank construction Stilts (strucutural elements) Plank (wood) Hinged doors Hinged windows Gable roofs Antennas Clothesline Palm tree
Decolonial Subject	Domestic Work Underdevelopment
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image