Casona Césari
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The Antonio Mattei Lluberas Residence (Spanish: Residencia Antonio Mattei Lluberas), also known as La Casona Césari (Spanish for 'the Césari Manor') and the House of the Twelve Doors (La Casa de las Doce Puertas), is a historic late 19th-century manor house located in Yauco Pueblo, the administrative and historic center of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico.[1] The house was designed by architect Antonio Mattei Lluberas and built in 1893 by Angelo Cesari Poggi (Ángel Césari Poggi in its localized Spanish spelling) of the Césari Antongiorgi family, a Corsican-Puerto Rican family who was important in the development of the sugarcane industry of Yauco and southwestern Puerto Rico.[2]
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Casona Césari | |
Location | 25 de Julio Street in Yauco, Puerto Rico |
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Coordinates | 18°01′59″N 66°51′03″W |
Built | 1893 |
Architect | Antonio Mattei Lluberas |
Architectural style | Creole vernacular |
NRHP reference No. | 85000114 |
Added to NRHP | January 16, 1985 |
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