ART DECO THEATER … in my country!! #PuertoRico …
Rebecca Gale (National Trust for Historic Preservation) writes about the rehabilitation process of the former Teatro Argel, an Art Deco building in Ponce, Puerto Rico. [Article accessed via Critical.Caribbean.Art.]
For Carlos Colón and his family, rehabilitating a former Art Deco theater building in downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico, has been the very definition of a labor of love. Committed to revitalizing their hometown by restoring its beautiful historic buildings, the Colóns spent four years and $400,000 of their own money transforming the vacant building into an airy community bakery that pays homage to its past.
Since the building’s genesis in 1940 as El Teatro Argel, it had been used as a movie theater, a disco, a storage space, and a church. The artful structure was the work of Pedro Mendez Mercado, a native of Ponce who received his BA in architecture from Syracuse University and went on to…
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My grandparents took me as a little boy to movies on Saturday night for a quarter. The theater was also art deco inside and out. Great memory. Thanks
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