Márquez House, Hacienda Valentina
Description
Front view of an Hacienda house. The house is two-story with a zinc roof. The first level is in concrete with double wooden windows and doors. To one side it has an open balcony sustained by concrete columns. The roof of the balcony is flat and sustained by beams. The area is decorated with chairs and plants in hanging pots. Also, there are rounded arches and discharge arches. On the second level the structure is wooden with a zinc roof. It has double wooden windows and double doors with lattice-style windows. At one end it has a large balcony surrounded by a wooden balustrade supported by thin wooden columns. The area is decorated with chairs, tables and hammocks. The balcony has a zinc eave supported by wooden beams.| Origin Name |
CAJ_0018_F0001_R
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| Relation |
Archivo de Arquitectura y Construcción de la Universidad de Puerto Rico > Colección Carol F. Jopling > Caja 1 -Fotografías
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| Geographical Coverage |
Hormigueros
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| Date |
1978 o 1979
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| Descriptive Notes |
The title, date and address were provided by the Architecture and Construction Archive of the University of Puerto Rico (AACUPR). On the back of the image, there are handwritten notes that read: "Fig. 19, CAJ|0018|F0001". There are repeated photos among the files of this collection because they document different photographic formats created for the project. The title was assigned by the cataloguing team. Examples: 35mm negatives, color, black and white, instant photography, photos that were clarified or with contrast.
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| Descripción decolonial |
An Hacienda House in Hormigueras encapsulates modernity's fusion within colonial histories of resource extraction. Corsican and Catalan immigrants, masters of coffee and sugar trade in Puerto Rico’s south and west, introduced New Orleans Creole, Victorian European, and Art Nouveau styles to the houses of hacendados (landed elite) in the nineteenth century. This blended into an emergent criollo style, marked by iron balustrades, slanting roofs, and lattice windows. Semi-circular arches converse with wooden lattice jalousies, revealing the interplay of bygone elegance and contemporary flair, wherein history and innovation correspond. This farm is associated with the labor of the aggregate and landless peasantry who dedicated their lives to the constant and unlimited work of these spaces of economic power in the mountains.
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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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