Ramón Emeterio Betances House - Mayagüez - 2011 00021

Description

View of the facade and lateral entrance from the Ramón Emeterio Betances house in Mayagüez, also known as the five arch house. The main section of the house facade shows a pedestal, a plain shaft column, a metal railing with leaf and flower motifs, a mixtilinear arch accentuated with a bracket and an ornament of a star inside a sphere. In addition, stands out a window that integrates an air conditioner console and a grille decorated with spiral motifs. The doors are double leaf with louvers, panels and ventilation fanlights. On the side stands out a stair whose parapet has ornamental urns. This section of the stair and the lateral door is covered with an appentice supported with brackets. It also stands out a fence that has a low wall crowned with grilles and interrupted by pillars. The house is elevated on a podium is made of masonry and matched lumber, and its surface is yellow and white. In 1865, Ramón Emeterio Betances requested the permit to built this masonry house, where he only lived for two years. When he died, his sister Inés, inherited 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 that acknowledges the love Betances had for Mayagüez.

Origin Name	Casa de Ramón Emeterio Betances - Mayagüez - 2011 00021
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 Housing in Puerto Rico: Urban Housing
Architectural Subject	Houses Historic houses Facades Arches Pedestals Columns (architectural elements) Podiums (building divisions) Railings (balustrades) Stars (motifs) Foliage (motif) Double doors Louver doors Transom windows Grilles (barrier elements) Piers (supporting elements) Appentices (buildings) Brackets (structural elements) Piers (supporting elements) Fences (site elements) Stairs (series of steps) Urns Eaves
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