Casa Paoli - Ponce - 2012 00008

Description

View of the interior of the Casa Paoli located on the Mayor street from the coastal city of Ponce. The house has one floor with characteristics of the Neoclassic style. On the interior spaces you can see a double wooden door crowned with a transom made of ornamental wood and a sign that says: "salida". In addition, the upper border of the wall has continuous moldings. The Casa Paoli was built between 1871 and 1883, being the residence for the family of the well known Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Emilio Paoli y Marcano. It was remodeled in 1914 and later on the 1920s. Over the years it has been used as a family residence and more recently as museum house. Additionally, it belongs to the National Register of Historic Places since 2009.

Origin Name	Casa Paoli - Ponce - 2012 00008
Relation	Puerto Rico Historic Building & Drawing Society > Colección Pueblos > Ponce (PRHBDS) > Casa Paoli - Ponce
Geographical Coverage	Ponce
Date	2012
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	Domenech Ferrer, Manuel (1869 - 1942) - Arquitecto Ojeda O'Neill, Pablo - Restaurador (arquitectura)
Historical Background	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries Housing in Puerto Rico: Urban Housing
Architectural Subject	Historic buildings Houses Double doors Moldings (object components) Museums (buildings) Neoclassical Interior spaces (spaces by location) Transom (opening components)
Decolonial Subject	Conception of Puerto Rican Identity Popular Culture Eurocentrism
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image