Casa Oppenheimer
Casa Oppenheimer | |
Location | Calle Salud No. 47 (NW corner with Calle Aurora), Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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Coordinates | 18°00′34″N 66°36′43″W / 18.009418°N 66.611890°W |
Area | < 1 acre |
Built | 1913 |
Architect | Alfredo B. Wiechers Pieretti |
Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
NRHP reference No. | 87001824[1] |
Added to NRHP | 29 October 1987 |
Casa Oppenheimer (English: Oppenheimer House) is a historic house in
History
The Oppenheimer House is one of Ponce's most distinctive residential structures. It was designed in 1913 for
Prominent in this property is the used of a chamfered front entrance gate. This front entrance into the property follows the chamfered pattern delineated by the city street at the corner of Salud and Aurora streets. This designed responded to city ordinances which mandated the incorporation of chamfered corners in urban city lots.[7] This design, along with the use of a mirror-image chamfered design of the front of the house proper, provided the property with a significant amount of frontal garden space, uncommon in city lots just two blocks from Ponce's main Plaza, as is the case of this house.[8]
Significance
The residence is "one of the best examples in Ponce of the Puerto Rican adaptation of the architecture of the Barcelona School, and forms an integral part of the series of late 19th and early 20th century grand houses which defines the unique urban character of the center of Ponce."[7]
Architecture
The house is a raised, one-
See also
- Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office Files
- Ponce Historic Archives
Notes
- Subira" (Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. 1992. Page 398.)
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
- ^ a b Mariano G. Coronas Castro, Certifying Official; Hector M. Santiago, State Architectural Historian, Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 14 August 1987. Oppenheimer House. In, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (Washington, D.C.) Page 3. Listing Reference Number 87001824. 29 October 1987.
- ^ Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, Rafael J. Torres Torres, and Carlos Aneiro Perez. "Otros Puntos de Interes", in Brevario Sobre la Historia de Ponce y Sus Principales Lugares de Interes. Gobierno Municipal de Ponce (Ponce, Puerto Rico). Model Offset Printing. 1991. page 172.
- ^ MedCentro y la Primera Dama adelantan Proyecto Casa Mujer. La Perla del Sur. Year 36. Issue 1844, 3 to 9 April 2019. p. 19.
- ^ Museum of Ponce Architecture: Casa Wiechers Villaronga. Travel Ponce.
- ^ Auxiliar descriptivo de la Colección Alfredo Wiechers. Archived 17 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla Library. (A Horizon Information Portal.) Undated. Accessed 9 November 2018.
- ^ a b Mariano G. Coronas Castro, Certifying Official; Hector M. Santiago, State Architectural Historian, Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 14 July 1987. Oppenheimer House. In, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (Washington, D.C.) Page 3. Listing Reference Number 87001824. 29 October 1987.
- ^ Mariano G. Coronas Castro, Certifying Official; Hector M. Santiago, State Architectural Historian, Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 14 August 1987. Oppenheimer House. In, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Washington, D.C. Section 8: "Significance." Page 3. Listing Reference Number 87001824. 29 October 1987.
- ^ Mariano G. Coronas Castro, Certifying Official; Hector M. Santiago, State Architectural Historian, Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 14 August 1987. Oppenheimer House. In, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (Washington, D.C.) Page 2. Listing Reference Number 87001824. 29 October 1987.
External links
- National Register of Historic Places photographic file
- Plastica, Revista de la Liga de Arte de San Juan, No. 15, Vol. 2. Sept. 1986.
- Archivo Historico de Ponce, Plans of houses designed by Alfredo Weichers.
- Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, Arquitectura.