Casa Alonso is a

house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a v ...

and cultural center in Vega Baja Pueblo, the historic downtown of the municipality of

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico Vega Baja (, ) is a Vega Baja barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality located on the coast of north central Puerto Rico. It is north of Morovis, Puerto Rico, Morovis, east of Manatí, Puerto Rico, Manatí, and west of ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1996. The house is also known as Museo de Arte, Historia y Cultura Casa Alonso, administered by the municipality of Vega Baja. It is a two-story wood and masonry "neoclassical vernacular style" residence. It was lived in successively by Soliveras, Otero, and Alonso families, of sugar plantation wealth. with

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dedication plaque.

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Art museums and galleries in Puerto Rico Museums in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

Alonso Alonso is a Spanish name of Germanic origin that is a Castilian variant of ''Adalfuns''. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 36.6% of all known bearers of the surname ''Alonso'' were residents of Spain (frequency 1:222), 26.1% of Mexico (1:83 ...

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