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Roodeweg 42 – 44

Description

Name of property:

Casa Blanca

 

Characteristics:

Large detached two-storey monumental structure set back from street. Main building of corral originally fully surrounded by additional buildings at edges of corral. U- shaped floor plan enclosing a patio. Two parallel hipped roofs over front section, gable roofs over rear wings. Heavy profiled and fully decorated projecting cornice on consoles over façades, dentate quoins on corners. Front façade laid out in seven axes. Central section with triangular fronton above cornice; front balcony above portico with double columns on front platform with steps. Front fence with footing wall and bars set between pillars. Central front gate between fluted pillars, two additional gates on both sides. Fully restored as Civil Registry (restoration awarded with Carfibbean prize for best restoration architecture).

 

Monument value:

Architectural historical value because of a.o. the symmetrical set-up of the front façade with central section in particular and the monumental character of structure and fence. Cultural historical value as the main building of one of the few existing examples of the old corral-structure in Otrobanda. Specific value as part of a protected monumental townscape.

 

Construction period:

1858

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Address: Roodeweg 38 - 40
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Country: Netherlands Antilles
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