Casa Vives - Ponce - 2013 00003 - PRAHA

Casa Vives - Ponce - 2013 00003

Description

View from the interior in the Casa Vives located between the Paseo Atocha street and Castillo street from the coastal city of Ponce. The house has two floors made of brick masonry and wood with characteristics of the Neoclassic style. The entrance is through a hall with the walls painted simulating marble, in addition there is a marble stair with an ornamental bronze balustrade and wooden handrail. The stair goes up to a double ornamental iron gate crowned with a sunrise transom that is under a semicircular arch. The Casa Vives was built between the 1859 and 1860 for the family of Don Salvador de Vives, founder of the Hacienda Buena Vista de Ponce. It was used as a family residence and commercial establishment. It is considered one of the well preserved houses from the XIX century in the island. Since 2012 the Casa Vives belongs to the National Register of Historic Places.
Origin Name
Casa Vives - Ponce - 2013 00003
Relation
Puerto Rico Historic Building & Drawing Society > Colección Pueblos > Ponce (PRHBDS) > Casa Vives
Geographical Coverage
Ponce
Date
2013
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
  • Bértoli Calderoni, Juan Francisco (1820 - 1885) - Diseñador
  • Milán, Carlos - Constructor
Historical Background
Architectural Subject
  • Historic buildings
  • Houses
  • Vestibules
  • Interior spaces (spaces by location)
  • Neoclassical
  • Semicircular arches
  • Moldings (object components)
  • Stairs (series of steps)
  • Handrails
  • Grilles (barrier elements)
Decolonial Subject
Rights
English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format
JPEG
Resource Type
Image
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