Ramón Emeterio Betances House - Mayagüez - 2011 00001

Description

Facade of the Ramón Emeterio Betances house in Mayagüez, also known as the five arches house. This house, made of masonry and wood, is elevated on a podium. The facade consists on a gallery delimited by a series of mixtilinear arches elevated on paired columns. These columns are elevated on pedestals, in turn, they separate the ornamental metal railing with leaf and flower motifs. Above the arches and on the panels stands out the star sign inside a sphere. The doors are double leaf with louvers and fanlights panels that allow the ventilation, and the lateral windows have similar characteristics. The roof is a hipped roof with zinc plates and also are distinguished with an appendage with hipped roof and louvers that allow ventilation. On one of the sides there is a gate flanked by two pillars. On the gate there are signs that say: "No estacione". The surface of the residence is painted yellow and white. In front of the house there are several parked automobiles near the sidewalk. In 1865, Ramón Emeterio Betances requested the permit to built this masonry house, where he only lived two years. When he died, his sister Inés, inherit it. The house was affected by the 1918 earthquake. In 2006, the city mayor gave back the name of Betances to the street and put in front of the residence a plaque to acknowledge the love Betances had for Mayagüez.

Origin Name	Casa de Ramón Emeterio Betances - Mayagüez - 2011 00001
Relation	Puerto Rico Historic Building & Drawing Society > Colección Pueblos > Mayagüez (PRHBDS) > Casa de Ramón Emeterio Betances - Mayagüez
Geographical Coverage	Mayagüez
Date	2011
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	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries Road and Trails in Puerto Rico: Roads Transportation in Puerto Rico: Automobile Housing in Puerto Rico: Urban Housing
Architectural Subject	Houses Historic houses Facades Porches Podiums (building divisions) Arches Columns (architectural elements) Pedestals Panels (ornament areas) Railings (balustrades) Moldings (object components) Stars (motifs) Matched lumber Louver windows Double doors Hip roofs Roof appendages Zinc Gates (swinging barriers) Piers (supporting elements) Vernacular architecture Automobiles
Decolonial Subject	Anti-imperalism Anti-colonialism Conception of Carribbean Identity Conception of Puerto Rican Identity Decoloniality Right to Freedom Liberalism Independence Movement Revolution
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image