The Delerme-Anduze House (
Spanish: ''Casa Delerme-Anduze''), also known as the Rosendo Delerme House (''Casa Rosendo Delerme''),
is a historic Spanish Creole vernacular house located in
Isabel Segunda, the largest and main administrative and historic settlement of the island-municipality of
Vieques, Puerto Rico.
The house was built following the gallery-type
French Caribbean vernacular tradition (known as Louisiana-style in the United States) during the 1850s by Augusto Neré Delerme, a wealthy
French immigrant from
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...
. He was also the owner of
another historic house located nearby. It was added to 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 1994 as it is described as the finest example of French Creole house in Vieques and one of the few of its type remaining anywhere in the United States.
See also
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Casa Delerme-Anduze No. 2
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico
Vieques, Puerto Rico
1850s establishments in Puerto Rico
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