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Casa Agostini
The Casa Agostini, in Yauco, Puerto Rico, is a Classical Revival house designed by Miguel Briganti Pinti. It was built in the early 1800s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1988. It is a two-story stuccoed masonry commercial and residential building that is L-shaped in plan. Its main facade has eight bays. With . It served as a coffee warehouse and processing plant, as well as a residence and was built for Corsican immigrant Jose Maria Agostini Santini. References National Register of Historic Places in Yauco, Puerto Rico Neoclassical architecture in Puerto Rico Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico Warehouses on the National Register of Historic Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yauco, Puerto Rico
Yauco () is a Yauco barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in southern Puerto Rico. Although the Yauco barrio-pueblo, downtown is inland, the municipality stretches to a southern coast facing the Caribbean Sea. Yauco is located south of Maricao, Puerto Rico, Maricao, Lares, Puerto Rico, Lares and Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, Adjuntas; east of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, Sabana Grande and Guánica, Puerto Rico, Guánica; and west of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, Guayanilla. The municipality consists of 20 barrios and Yauco barrio-pueblo, Yauco Pueblo (the downtown and administrative center of the municipality). It is both a principal town of the Yauco Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Ponce-Yauco-Coamo, PR CSA, Ponce-Yauco-Coamo Combined Statistical Area. It was founded by Fernando Pacheco on February 29, 1756, and developed for commodity crops of tobacco, Sugarcane, sugar cane, and Coffee production, coffee. Yauco became a center for Corsican immigration to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
