Other Districts
Address: J E Irausquin Blvd 81, Noord Year Built: 1958/9 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: private Shortly after 1950, there were only two simple tourist hotels on Aruba: the Coral Strand Hotel, now Talk of the Town Resort, and the Basi Ruti on Palm Beach, where Playa Linda Resort now stands. But in the mid-1950s, [...]
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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: 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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Location: Seroe Colorado (former Lago Colony) Year Built: 1939 Monument status: Protected Ownership: private Soon after the Lago Refinery had been established, Maurice “Jack” Emery, pipe fitter at Lago, started to hold religious gatherings: at first they were held in the personnel’s canteen, later in a school building. On September 18, 1929 the first religious [...]
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Location: Juwana Morto, San Nicolas Year Built: 1942 Monument status: Protected Ownership: Government of Aruba When World War II broke out in 1939 and Holland was occupied in May 1940, the need to defend the overseas territories of the Dutch Kingdom in the Caribbean was felt. At Juwana Morto a coastal battery was built in [...]
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Location: Alto Vista Year Built: 1952 Monument status: Protected Ownership: Private The original Alto Vista Chapel was a primitive church built in 1750 by a half-breed Indian from Alto Vista. It was just a hut made out of branches and wood and covered with twigs. The Alto Vista chapel was consecrated by a Capuchin priest [...]
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Location: Balashi/Frenchman's Pass Year Built: 1899 Monument status: Protected Ownership: Government of Aruba The first gold mining industry was located at the Bushiribana Gold Smelter, where the Aruba Gold Mining Company was active till 1899. In that year, the company was dissolved and a new one was founded in London, the Aruba Gold Concessions, Ltd. [...]
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Address: Bubali 119 Year Built: 1918 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: Private Mansion Quinta del Carmen was built in 1918 by Adriaan Laclé, a prominent local businessman. As many rich Arubans before him, he built the large weekend house in the countryside. He named it after his daughter Maria del Carmen. The Laclé family did [...]
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Location: Bushiribana, Matavidiri Year Built: 1872 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: Government of Aruba In 1824, alluvial gold was discovered in Rooi Fluit, in a dry river bed near the North coast. Soon thereafter, gold veins were discovered in several places in the north-western part of the island. Between 1824 to 1915, several companies have [...]
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Location: Kibaima, Balashi Year Built: 1932 Monument status: Not protected Ownership: Government of Aruba These water tanks, at about 50 meters above sea level, were designed by Mr. Pieter van Stuivenberg and were built around the year 1932. Total capacity was The water flowed from the tanks through a system of pipes to the water [...]
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