Casa Oppenheimer - Ponce - 2014 00008

Description

View of the interior of the Oppenheimer house located on the Salud street from the coastal city of Ponce. The house has one level made of brick masonry with characteristics of the Art Nouveau style and of the Escuela de Barcelona. On the interior spaces you can see the ceiling decorated with an ornamental coffered and decorative frames on the walls. In addition, there is a double door made of wood and glass crowned with an open transom without frame. Through the door you can distinguish an adjacent room where there are semicircular openings. The Oppenheimer residence dates of 1913, it was built for Ms. Isabel Oppenheimer de Santiago. Years later, in 1987 it was included in the National Register of Historic Places.

Origin Name	Casa Oppenheimer - Ponce - 2014 00008
Relation	Puerto Rico Historic Building & Drawing Society > Colección Pueblos > Ponce (PRHBDS) > Casa Oppenheimer
Geographical Coverage	Ponce
Date	2014
Descriptive Notes	Original name of provenience and the title were assigned by the Project Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage (PRAHA). The general description contains information took from the official Facebook page of Puerto Rico Historic Building Drawing Society.
Colaborador	Wiechers, Alfredo B. (1881 - 1964) - Arquitecto
Historical Background	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Twentieth Century (1898-1940) Housing in Puerto Rico: Urban Housing
Architectural Subject	Historic buildings Houses Interior spaces (spaces by location) Coffered ceilings Double doors Moldings (object components) Openings (architectural elements) Art Nouveau
Decolonial Subject	Afro Caribbean Racial Capitalism Gender Coloniality Eurocentrism Fetichism Woman Capitalista Order Capitalist Patriarchy Racialization (processes of racialization)
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image