A three minutes walk would bring one to the Heritage strip of the City (CALLE CRISOLOGO) where everything from brick walls, cobble stone streets and capiz shell
windows of the centuries old villas are colonial Spanish inspired.
Not exact matches
Maldonado has preserved the airy feel
of the 16th -
century building, set on
Old San Juan's southern fringes: all suites have high ceilings, large
windows, and balconies that overlook the busy street below.
In a
century -
old house made
of dark teak wood, simple but well - kept rooms have high ceilings, soft beds, mosquito nets and several
windows.
The works
of 24 women in this exhibition become «
windows» through which the artists and onlookers can observe the passing
of the
old century and the beginning
of a new millennium.
The developer renovated two
century -
old factories where some
of the country's most famous greenhouses were manufactured, retaining their original oversize
windows and skylights to create loft - like spaces that the The New York Times dubbed «SoHo on the Hudson.»
«We bought an
old turn -
of - the -
century Victorian with stained glass
windows and beautiful woodwork.
On those greyest
of gloomiest days, I look outside my kitchen
window and see the dark, gnarled and sculptural bare limbs
of a
century old tree, and I am grateful for the beauty it provides amid the dreariness and for the warm nest from which I admire it.