Casa Paoli - Ponce - 2012 00030

Description

Exterior view 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. The patio has the floor covered with ceramic tiles, the rear facade has a chimney, oculus and lattice style windows made of wood. It also has double doors, one of them is presided by stairs crowned with wooden eaves. The Casa Paoli was built in 1871 and 1883, being the residence of 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 a museum house. In addition, it belongs to the National Register of Historic Places since 2009.

Origin Name	Casa Paoli - Ponce - 2012 00030
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	Edificios históricos Houses Double doors Moldings (object components) Museums (buildings) Neoclassical Windows Ceramic tile Oculi (openings) Eaves Stairs (series of steps) Chimneys (architectural elements)
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