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Military Base Finance Office

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Description

Finance office at the United States Army Military Base known as Borinquen Field in Aguadilla. Concrete house with a wooden and zinc hip roof, and a gable dormer with window. The porch has a concrete balustrade and six round columns supporting the roof. The front door is a wooden double door, and the front windows are wooden double-casement windows with a crossbeam. One of the sides is visible, showing the double casement windows and an entrance with steps leading thereto. The wall finish has a stucco texture. There is a garden in front of the house.
Origin Name
CJHO0058(a)
Relation
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín > Sección X, Serie 3, Colección José H. Orraca
Geographical Coverage
Aguadilla
Date
1940
Descriptive Notes
Title assigned by the cataloging team. The front of the image has a printed inscription. Back. Inscription: "If used for publication photo by U.S. Army Air Corps 27th Recon. Sqdn. Photo Section Borinquen Field Puerto Rico credit line must read."
Descripción decolonial
The tree-lined finance offices at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico reveals the relationship between between economic and military imperialism. The colonial-style structure symbolizes historical ties between militarization and economic exploitation, where economic motives drive military interventions for resource dominance, corporate control, and the preservation of global capitalism. As a visible facet of military infrastructure, this building represents the machinery sustaining imperial pursuits. The colonnaded porch and bucolic setting of the finance office echoes colonial structures of creole and peninsular elites in Puerto Rico during the Spanish colonial era. These resonances between Spanish colonial and US imperial architecture draw from a shared history of military control, territorial dominance, and appropriation in Puerto Rico—a symbiotic, or better stated parasitic, relationship that perpetuates imperialist endeavors.
Historical Background
Architectural Subject
  • Military bases
  • Houses
  • Hip roofs
  • Dormers
  • Stairs (series of steps)
  • Balconies
  • Balustrades
  • Columns (architectural elements)
  • Double doors
  • Louver windows
  • Trees (woody plants)
  • Gardens (open spaces)
Decolonial Subject
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Editor
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format
JPEG
Resource Type
Image
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