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Sebastopolstraat 26-28

Sebastopolstraat 26-28, Otrobanda, ,
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Description

Sebastopol House likely belonged to merchant Isaac Faesch, who served as director of Curaçao from 1740 to 1758. Next to Faesch’ house stood a sentry box, which explains the former name of Sebastopolstraat: ‘Hanchi di Warda’. After his death, the property was sold to Jan Jacob Faesch, probably his nephew, who lived in the Netherlands and owned plantations in Suriname. The house changed owners several times before Willem Paulus Chapman, a master carpenter, bought it in 1827. The name ‘Sebastopol’ likely references the city besieged between 1854-1855 during the Crimean War.

By the late 19th century, Chapman’s son, William Tiburtius, also known as Shon Wiwi, had acquired the building from his father’s estate. Shon Wiwi co-founded both the club ‘De Gezelligheid’ and the Curaçao Mortgage Bank. Sebastopol House was sold in a public auction in 1919 due to unpaid mortgage debt. In the 1930s, the house was owned by the Da Costa Gomez family. In 2017, the many heirs of Helena da Costa Gomez sold the property to Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao, which completed the restoration in 2020.

Name of property:

‘Sebastopol’

Characteristics:

Large detached two-and-a-half story structure with main building and additional structures in walled-in premises. The main building with two parallel gable roofs with dormers over a core area, on three sides surrounded by adjoining lean-to roofs over two-story galleries. Funnel-shaped gables on the front side with molded curls at lower ends and inward curved top end with semicircular fronton with pinnacles and date mark ‘1742’. Ditto gables on the rear side with small semicircular fronton and pinnacle above rectangular molding. Front façade with horizontal band below shutter windows and ditto band above partly blind arcade with wooden fretwork infill.

Monument value:

Architectural historical, scientific, and esthetical value because of a.o. the characteristic 18th-century funnel-shaped gables, the galleries on three sides, and the arches on the ground floor. Architectural historical and cultural-historical value as one of the few preserved examples of a corral in this part of Otrobanda, and because of the floor plan with galleries typical of Curaçao. Specific value as part of a protected monumental townscape.

Construction period:

1742

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Address: Sebastopolstraat 26-28, Otrobanda
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Country: Curacao
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