Casa Wiechers-Villaronga - Ponce - 2007 00007
Description
View of the interior of the Casa Wiechers-Villaronga located between the streets Méndez Vigo and Reina from the coastal city of Ponce. The house has two floors made of brick masonry, stone and wood with characteristics of the Art Nouveau, Neoclassic and Catalan Modernism styles. On the interior of the main room you can distinguish the wooden floor, a bed made of wood with ornamental details crowned with a suspended canopy made wood and fabric. Aside from that, next to the bed there is a bedside table above which it rests a wall lamp. In addition, you can see the ceiling decorated with coffered, on the wall a stucco frieze and wooden windows with lattice framed with moldings and crowned with a transom made with stained glass. There is also a rectangular opening through which you can distinguish an adjacent room. The Wiecher-Villaronga dates back of 1911 and belonged to its own designer, Mr. Alfredo B. Wiechers and subsequently to Mr. Gabriel Villaronga. Years later, in 1984 the house was included in the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1990s it was acquired by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, restored from 1989 until 1991 and turned into what it is now, the Museo de la Arquitectura Ponceña.| Origin Name |
Casa Wiechers-Villaronga - Ponce - 2007 00007
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| Relation |
Puerto Rico Historic Building & Drawing Society > Colección Pueblos > Ponce (PRHBDS) > Casa Wiechers- Villaronga
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| Geographical Coverage |
Ponce
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| Date |
2007
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| 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.
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| Rights |
English Rights. (hyperlink)
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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