Monuments
Address: Oranjestad: A.M. Schuttestraat San Nicolas: Bernhardstraat 144 Year Built: 1930s Monument status: demolished Ownership: Government of Aruba The Oranjestad Police Headquarters was built in the 1930s. It was located at the intersection of the A.M. Schuttestraat and Havenstraat. The police headquarters, both in Oranjestad as in San Nicolas, are built in the neoclassical style, [...]
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Location: intersection Havenstraat/Kazernestraat Year Built: 1830 Monument status: distroyed Ownership: Government of Aruba Once it was the most important building of the island, the Commander’s Office. It was built around 1830 and as of 1848 (until 1929), it served as residence and office of the island’s Commander, later called the Lieutenant Governor. The building was [...]
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Address: Noord 45; intersection Caya Frans Figaroa Year Built: 1921 Monument status: demolished Ownership: private At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a renowned master bricklayer, Janchi Christiaans, who built houses which featured undulating gables, a rarity in Aruba. In Curaçao they are more common. The style originated from Holland to the colonies, [...]
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Address: Wilhelminastraat 1 Year Built: 1900s Monument status: demolished Ownership: private At the beginning of Wilhelminastraat stood an impressive mansion, belonging to the island's first doctor, Horacio Eulogio Oduber. He was the first government doctor. The building stood next to the small protestant church, built in 1846. In the doctor's house, patients were received and [...]
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Address: Kazernestraat, Oranjestad Year Built: 1900s Monument status: demolished Ownership: private These houses stood at the Kazernestraat, next to the former Commander's office/Marines barracks.
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Location: intersection Kruisweg/Wilhelminastraat Year Built: 1900s Monument status: demolished Ownership: private This monumental building was located at the intersection of Kruisweg and Wilhelminastraat. Owner was Jacobus Albertsz Arends. Photographer Jan Bonke had his studio in this building. This is him posing with his wife and kid. The building was torn down in the 1980s. The [...]
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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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