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IJzerstraat 88 – 94

Description

Businessman Jan Gerard Hypólito (Padoei) Palm (1891-1960) acquired the two-story mansion next door on the right in 1924. Two years later, he decided to construct these two wooden houses next to it, dividing them into four apartments that were rented out for many years. Jan Gerard Palm was named after his father, one of the most renowned Caribbean composers of the 19th century. Later on, his heirs sold the property to Jacob Gelt Dekker, and the buildings became part of the Kura Hulanda project.

Unfortunately, the wooden houses had to undergo complete reconstruction due to termite infestations and wood rot. The wooden houses are distinctive because of their size, particularly since traditional architecture in Curaçao was primarily constructed in stone.

Name of property:

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Characteristics:

Detached double structure made up of two connected identical two-story wooden structures. Two external staircases to the first floor, one separating both structures. Two parallel hipped roofs with overhangs; corrugated iron roofing. Front façade of each unit: cantilevered triangular fronton with profiled frame supported by five sawn and decorated consoles. Shutter doors on the first floor open to full-frontage wooden balconies supported by four cut consoles. Central door flanked by tall windows on the ground floor.

Monument value:

Architectural historical value because wooden houses of this type and size are rare in Curaçao. Architectural historical and esthetical value because of such elements as a.o. the typical frontons, the wooden consoles and balconies, and the shutter doors and windows with frames. Specific value as part of a protected monumental townscape.

Construction period:

Not listed in the Register of Monuments

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Address: IJzerstraat 88 - 94, Otrobanda
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Country: Curacao
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