Casa Vives - Ponce - 2013 00055

Description

Exterior view of 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 rear facade has a wooden balustrade covered with a metal mesh through which you can distinguish a wooden handrail on the interior. In addition, above the balustrade there are lattice style windows also made of wood. The Casa Vives was built between the 1859 and 1860 for the family of Don Salvador de Vives, founder of the Hacienda Buena Vista of Ponce. It was used as a family residence and a 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 00055
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	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries Housing in Puerto Rico: Urban Housing
Architectural Subject	Historic buildings Houses Neoclassical Windows Balustrades Handrails
Decolonial Subject	Coloniality Capitalist Development Plantation Economy Criollo Elites Eurocentrism Hispanism Capitalista Order Capitalist Patriarchy
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image