Residencia Ermelindo Salazar (Ermelindo Salazar Home) is a historic house in

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. It was built in 1870 as the home of

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, a prominent citizen and businessman in the city as well as its mayor in 1880. It is located at 70 Cristina street in the

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, in Barrio

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.''Centro Cultural Carmen Solá Vda. de Pereira.''
Government of the Municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ponce, Ciudad Señorial: Atracciones Turisticas. Retrieved 21 September 2011. Today the house serves as the headquarters of the

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, the cultural center of the city of Ponce, where it is used for educational and cultural activities as well as for art exhibits.

History

In the 1980s the structure was purchased by the

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as the first location of the

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. Since 1992 it serves as home to the Centro Cultural de Ponce, "actively promoting the artistic development on

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��s rich educational and intellectual environment", including the ''Noches de Galería'', "where renowned as well as promising painters,

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s and sculptors exhibit their works and showcase their talent."

Structure

The structure, located at 18° 0' 44.244" N, 66° 36' 39.9528" W (18.01229000°N 66.611098000°W),''Centro Cultural de Ponce Carmen Solá de Pereira.'' in, Discover Why Puerto Rico does it better.
Puerto Rico Tourism Company. Government of Puerto Rico. Retrieved 21 September 2011. was designed in 1870 by the Corsican architect

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. Its style incorporates elements of Colonial Spanish and

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architecture. Its courtyard is surrounded by a gallery. The building was originally built as the former home of

, a prominent landowner, merchant, banker, as well as mayor of Ponce in 1880.''Cultural Center Carmen Solá de Pereira.''
TravelPonce.com. Retrieved 21 September 2011. In 1959 the building became the first home of the

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. Museo de Arte de Ponce moved to its current facility on Avenida Las Americas in 1965, vacating the structure at 70 Cristina Street. In 1990, the

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restored the structure to house the first headquarters of the

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.Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, et al. Breviario sobre la Historia de Ponce y sus Principales Lugares de Interes. 1st ed. 1991. San Juan, PR: Model Offset Printing. pp. 129–132. The house has the distinction of being the first one in the city to be served by a private telephone line. The line exclusively communicated the owners’ family residence with their commercial offices at the Ponce port. This was 17 years before the service finally arrived to the rest of the city.

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Museo de Arte de Ponce, former occupant of the current "Centro Cultural de Ponce Carmen Solá de Pereira."
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