Residencia Ermelindo Salazar

Residencia Ermelindo Salazar (Ermelindo Salazar Home) is a historic house in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was built in 1870 as the home of Ermelindo Salazar, a prominent citizen and businessman in the city as well as its mayor in 1880. It is located at 70 Cristina street in the Ponce Historic Zone, in Barrio Tercero, Ponce, Puerto Rico.[1] Today the house serves as the headquarters of the Centro Cultural de Ponce Carmen Solá de Pereira, the cultural center of the city of Ponce, where it is used for educational and cultural activities as well as for art exhibits.[2]

This article is about the historic home. For the Cultural Center housed at this historic home, see Centro Cultural Carmen Solá de Pereira de Ponce.

Residencia Ermelindo Salazar
Residencia Ermelindo Salazar, in Barrio Tercero, Ponce, Puerto Rico
General information
Architectural stylePonce Creole
Town or city70 Cristina Street, Ponce
CountryPuerto Rico
Coordinates18°00′43.092″N 66°36′45.3234″W
Completed1870
ClientErmelindo Salazar
Design and construction
Architect(s)Juan Bertoli Calderoni
EngineerJuan Bertoli Calderoni

History

In the 1980s the structure was purchased by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture as the first location of the Museum of Puerto Rican Music. Since 1992 it serves as home to the Centro Cultural de Ponce,[1] "actively promoting the artistic development on [Ponce]’s rich educational and intellectual environment",[3] including the Noches de Galería, "where renowned as well as promising painters, artisans and sculptors exhibit their works and showcase their talent."[3][4]

Structure

The structure, located at 18° 0' 44.244" N, 66° 36' 39.9528" W (18.01229000°N 66.611098000°W),[5] was designed in 1870 by the Corsican architect Juan Bertoli Calderoni. Its style incorporates elements of Colonial Spanish and Ponce Creole architecture. Its courtyard is surrounded by a gallery.[1] The building was originally built as the former home of Ermelindo Salazar, a prominent landowner, merchant, banker, as well as mayor of Ponce in 1880.[1][3] In 1959 the building became the first home of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.[3][5] Museo de Arte de Ponce moved to its current facility on Avenida Las Americas in 1965, vacating the structure at 70 Cristina Street. In 1990, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña restored the structure to house the first headquarters of the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña.[6][7]

The house has the distinction of being the first one in the city to be served by a private telephone line.[1] The line exclusively communicated the owners’ family residence with their commercial offices at the Ponce port. This was 17 years before the service finally arrived to the rest of the city.[3]

See also

References
  1. Centro Cultural Carmen Solá Vda. de Pereira. Archived 19 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Government of the Municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ponce, Ciudad Señorial: Atracciones Turisticas. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  2. Centro Cultural de Ponce Carmen Solá de Pereira. in, Pa' Donde Voy PR! Pa' Donde Voy, Corp. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  3. Cultural Center Carmen Solá de Pereira. TravelPonce.com. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  4. Artistas perpetúan a José Ayoroa Santaliz. Reinaldo Millán. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  5. Centro Cultural de Ponce Carmen Solá de Pereira. in, Discover Why Puerto Rico does it better. Puerto Rico Tourism Company. Government of Puerto Rico. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  6. Architecture. Magaly Rivera. Welcome to Puerto Rico. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  7. Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, et al. Breviario sobre la Historia de Ponce y sus Principales Lugares de Interes. 1st ed. 1991. San Juan, PR: Model Offset Printing. pp. 129–132.
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