Description
This house shares a plot with Scharlooweg 64-66 and Scharlooweg 68. The terrain was originally a part of the plantation Scharloo until Willem Janz Vermeulen bought it in 1729. The original 18th-century building did not survive. Johannes Andries de Haseth had this house built in 1862. In 1931, the neighbor at Scharlooweg 72-76, Shon Cai Winkel, becomes the owner, and he decides to rent the building out to Zilita and Julita Salas. Currently, the building is used as office space and rented out by the Curaçao Monument Foundation.
Name of property:
None
Characteristics:
A detached two-story structure with a ridge perpendicular to the street. A hipped roof over a rectangular floor plan. Profiled cornice with dentils and horizontal band over façades. The front façade is laid out in three axes with a central door and flanking windows, with the first-floor door leading to a wooden balcony. Above the front door a marble tablet with the old house number and the date ‘ 11.1862.B’. Stone benches between the front façade and fence. Pillared fence with central gate.
Monument value:
Architectural historical value as one of the earliest examples of a cube-shaped mansion in Curaçao. Specific value as part of a protected monumental townscape.
Construction period:
1862
