Casa Roig Museum, Historic house museum in Humacao, Puerto Rico
Casa Roig Museum is a residence built in 1920 in Humacao that displays the Prairie School architectural style. The building features a T-shaped layout made from concrete and wood, with distinctive stained glass windows and wide roof overhangs that provide shade from the tropical sun.
The house was designed and built in 1920 by architect Antonin Nechodoma for sugar planter Antonio Roig. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 to recognize its significance to the region's architectural history.
The rooms show how this architectural style was actually lived in on a Caribbean island, with practical adjustments made for the tropical heat and local building traditions. Throughout the house, you can see how North American design ideas merged with materials and techniques common to the region.
The museum is part of the University of Puerto Rico and operates with regular visiting hours guided by trained staff. It is best to plan ahead since hours are limited and groups benefit from notifying the museum in advance.
The house preserves original mosaics and decorative elements that show how architect Nechodoma brought ideas from Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright to a Caribbean setting. These details are easy to miss at first glance, but they tell much about how European and American design traditions merged here.
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