Description
The curved Baroque façades of these twin houses are characteristic of 18th-century architecture in Curaçao. A transport deed confirms that there were already twin houses in 1789. The buildings became part of a larger property in 1819 when Joannes Josephus Pirovano acquired them, along with the lean-to houses at Carthagenastraat 02 – 12. In 1868 the adjacent lot on the left of the twin houses was added to the property, on which ten years later Breedestraat 167-169 was built.
In the twentieth century candy store ‘Dulceria de Lourdes’ occupied the twin house on the left from the 1960s until 1992. The twin on the right housed a grocery store in the 1940s and a flower shop in the 1950s. The buildings were restored in 1995 by Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao and are now leased as retail units, currently housing a barbershop and jeweler.
Name of property:
None
Characteristics:
Semi-detached block of two adjoining one-story buildings with two identical street façades. The gable roofs are perpendicular to the street. Inward and outward curved gables with semicircular gable tops.
Monument value:
Architectural historical and esthetical value because of the characteristic inward and outward curved gables. Unique value as the sole known example of rich 18th-century gable architecture used for modest structures. Specific value as part of a protected monumental townscape.
Construction period:
18th Century
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