Building in Isabel Street - Muñoz Rivera - Ponce - 2014

Description

View of buildings on the Reina Isabel street from the coastal city of Ponce. At the foreground you can distinguish an end of the Ponce public square decorated with outdoor tiles, metallic railings, garden areas, wooden kiosks and roofs made of corrugated metal sheets. Crossing the paved and traveled street you can distinguish three adjacent buildings. From right to left, you can distinguish an end of the Casa Casals, the following building is a two floor commercial establishment with characteristics of the Neoclassic style. The first floor has three double doors made of glass framed with flat moldings and crowned with fabric awnings. The middle door is larger and above the awning there is an inscription that says: "Pizzalato Gelato - Pizza". The door is also flanked by two inscriptions that say: "Pastry", "Coffee". The second floor has four double doors made of wood with lattice framed with flat moldings crowned with transoms and entablatures supported by brackets. The doors are also presided by open balconies, two simple and one double with ornamental iron railings supported by brackets. The upper border also has a continuous entablature on which there is a low parapet with amphorae, a curve pediment with an oculus and a keystone. Now then, the adjacent building also has two floors with characteristics of the Neoclassic style. On the first floor you can distinguish a rectangular opening framed with moldings and crowned with a fabric awning. Through it you can distinguish a store counter. Aside from that, on the second floor you can see four double doors made of wood framed with flat moldings and crowned with entablatures supported with moldings and ornamental details in low relief. The doors are presided by an open balcony supported with brackets and surrounded by metallic iron grilles. In addition, the upper border of the building is decorated with a continuous entablature matched with cornices, moldings, dentils and a greek style ornamental frieze.

Origin Name	Edificio en calle Isabel-Muñoz Rivera - Ponce - 2014
Relation	Puerto Rico Historic Building & Drawing Society > Colección Pueblos > Ponce (PRHBDS) > Edificios en Ponce
Geographical Coverage	Ponce
Date	2014
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	Transportation in Puerto Rico: Automobile Architecture in Puerto Rico: Twentieth Century (1898-1940) Government of Puerto Rico: City Planning - Twentieth Century Architectura in Puerto Rico: Public Squares
Architectural Subject	Historic buildings Streets Automobiles Windows Double doors Cornices Moldings (object components) Balconies Entablatures Pilasters (wall components) Awnings Commercial buildings Neoclassical Lampposts
Decolonial Subject	Afro Caribbean Afrodescendant (identity) Afrolatino Consumerism Development (aparatus) Capitalist Development Eurocentrism Hispanism Woman Capitalista Order Afro-Boricua / Afro-Puerto Rican Population Colonial Subject
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image