Oranjestad
Address: Wilhelminastraat 40 Year Built: 1950 Monument status: Protected Ownership: private Designed and built by architect Jan Nagel, who has designed several properties on the island, the Mario S. Arends building’s style is characterized by rounded corners, recessed shop fronts and the use of glass blocks. Commissioned by businessman Mario S. Arends and inaugurated in [...]
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Address: Wilhelminastraatstraat 46 Year Built: 1900 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: private As you walk along Wilhelminastreet, you will notice several old houses, most of them more than a century old and in a dire state of repair. But one of those, next to the Mario Arends building, has been beautifully restored. It has been [...]
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Address: Wilhelminastraat Year Built: 1904 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: Private Welcome to Casa Rosada - the pink house -, one of Aruba’s rare gems! This is not just any building—it’s one of the few remaining townhouses with a fully functional upstairs apartment and a shop downstairs. Constructed between 1898 and 1904, it was originally [...]
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Location junction Wilhelminastraat/Ooststraat Year Built: 1929 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: private The house known as "Cas di Brenchi" was built in Oranjestad in 1929. Bruno Arends (Brenchi) was a well-known merchant in Oranjestad. The construction of this house was in the hands of Brenchi's older brother Jacobo (Coco) Arends. In 1932 the construction of [...]
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Address: Schelpstraat 42 Year Built: 1929 Monument status: Protected Ownership: Government of Aruba This protected monument in the center of Oranjestad was built in 1929 by Architect Merdardo ‘Dada’ Picus. The property got the nickname ‘Cas Ecury’ because it had been the family home of the S.N. Ecury family for many years. The Ecury Complex, [...]
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Address: Schelpstraat 40 Year Built: 1910 Monument status: Protected Owner: Government of Aruba This stately red building in the Schelpstraat has been designated as a monument. It was built in 1910. It was the home of merchant Segundo Nicasio Ecury, commonly known as Dundun. The trade house S.N. Ecury represented Ford motorcars and Goodrich tires, [...]
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Address: Schelpstraat 36-38 Year Built: end 19th Century Monument status: Protected Ownership: Monumentsfund Aruba This residence was constructed toward the conclusion of the 19th century. It was, along with the adjacent merchant’s house (number 36), constructed in the early 20th century and comprises a two-unit structure. The building on the left, at # 38, is [...]
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Address: Schelpstraat 12 Year Built: Second Half 19th Century Monument status: Protected Ownership: Monuments Fund Aruba This merchant’s residence likely dates back to the latter part of the 19th century. In 1913, Maximiliano Francisco Arends sold the property to the sailor Victor Wild for a sum of six hundred Florins. At that time, the house [...]
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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: J.E. Irausquinplein, Oranjestad Period Built: early 1950's Monument status: not protected Ownership: Government Over the centuries, the Aruba Post Office was housed in different places, among others Fort Zoutman, the 1911 Government Office building on Zoutmanstraat, the Goverment Office building which is the Courthouse now and a separate building behind the 'Bestuurskantoor' on L.G. [...]
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