Building Moscoso Hermano & Co - Municipal Building - Ponce - 2013 00001

Description

View of the Moscoso Hermano & Co. building located in the coastal city of Ponce. It has two floors with a bevelled design and characteristics of the Neoclassic and from the Spanish Colonial Arquitecture styles. On the first floor there are double wooden doors under semicircular arches framed with moldings, flanked by pilasters and crowned with stained glass transoms and keystones. In addition, there are double wooden windows under rectangular arches framed with moldings. The second floor has double doors made of wood crowned with wooden transoms presided by balconets and an overhang balcony supported by decorative brackets. Both the balconies and balconets have ornamental iron railings. Additionally, the facade is modulated with fluted pilasters that go up to the second floor and support the continuous entablature with moldings, cornices, a decorative frieze and an inscription that says: "...cosa Hermano & Co. Inc.", "...o Municipal". Above the entablature rests a balustrade that surrounds the roof like an open balcony. The Moscoso Hermano & Co. building was built at the beginning of the XX century. It was originally used as a commercial establishment until recent years when it was restored and enabled to house the municipal offices for the city of Ponce.

Origin Name	Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño - 2013 00001
Relation	Puerto Rico Historic Building & Drawing Society > Colección Pueblos > Ponce (PRHBDS) > Edificio Moscoso Hermanos & Co - Edificio Municipal - Ponce
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.
Historical Background	Puerto Rican Society: Urban Zone - Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Civil Society - People: Teodoro Moscoso Mora Architecture in Puerto Rico: Twentieth Century (1898-1940)
Architectural Subject	Historic buildings Windows Cornices Inscriptions Balustrades Balconies Moldings (object components) Keystones Double doors Transoms (opening components) Brackets (structural elements) Neoclassical Pilasters (wall components) Wall lamps Semicircular arches Municipal buildings
Decolonial Subject	Development (aparatus) Capitalist Development Cientific Deveolopment Criollo Elites Eurocentrism Neoliberalism Capitalista Order
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image