Address: Steenweg 17 - 19 Year Built: 1925 Monument status: Protected Ownership: Monuments Fund Aruba Addison Winfield Croes was born in Aruba in 1887. He had worked on the construction of the Panama Canal from a young age. He married Graciela Henriquez in 1914 and the couple had three children. The eldest daughter, Daisey, married [...]
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Location: Parke Nacional Arikok Year Built: 1935 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: Parke Nacional Arikok Aruba is known for its dry climate; there are no rivers and hardly any wells. But on the North Coast there is an oasis with a natural spring: Fontein. In the 18th and 19th centuries the plantation was owned by [...]
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Address: L.G. Smith Boulevard 2 Year Built: 1943 Status: Not protected Ownership: private Imagine Aruba during WW II, when there was no tourism of any kind on the island. There were no hotels on Palm Beach and the hospitality industry was unknown to Arubians, who mostly worked in the oil industry. It was during the [...]
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Address: Vondellaan 2 Year Built: 1958 Status: Not protected Ownership: private In 1949, after recognizing a great need for a center where art and culture could be practiced, a group of local cultural associations, led by the Cultureel Centrum Aruba, joined forces to develop Aruba’s first Cultural Center. Together, the associations founded the Stichting Schouwburg [...]
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address: Noord 2 Year Built: 1958 Monument status: Protected Ownership: Government of Aruba In 1950, the Catholic Church of Aruba, very concerned about the fate of abandoned children, asked Mother Imelda, Mother Superior of the Dominican Sisters of Bethany in the Netherlands, to come and take care of the orphans of the island. The construction [...]
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Address: Stadionweg 37 Year Built: 1952 Status: Protected Ownership: Government of Aruba Construction of the Aruba Technical School began in 1950, the school opened in 1952 and was inaugurated officially by Queen Juliana in 1955. After construction of the southern wing in 1952, the two-story northern wing was built in 1953. The construction in this [...]
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Address: Dominicanessenstraat 12 Year Built: 1934 Status: Not protected Ownership: private This building dates back to 1934. It was a school and association building, called 'Sint Franciscus Club', just like the church across the street. It was a roman catholic nursery school and youth society. It was part of a complex of buildings, including a [...]
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