Lassise–Schettini House

Lassise–Schettini House
Locator map
Location of Sabana Grande and the house in Puerto Rico
Location End of Ángel G. Martínez Street
Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
Coordinates 18°05′02″N 66°57′33″W / 18.083821°N 66.959098°W / 18.083821; -66.959098Coordinates: 18°05′02″N 66°57′33″W / 18.083821°N 66.959098°W / 18.083821; -66.959098
Built 1924
Architect Perocier, Luis
Architectural style Prairie School, Moorish-Spanish Revival
NRHP reference # 87001823[1]
Added to NRHP October 21, 1987

The Lassise–Schettini House, also known as La Quinta, is a historic house in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico. It was designed by architect Luis Perocier and built in 1924 for Dr. Enrique Lassise, a physician and "remembered good-samaritan" of the town of Sabana Grande and his wife Matilde Schettini, a school teacher.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

It is a two-story building with a mix of architectural styles, showing influence of the style of the traditional plantation house of the United States Gulf Coast and the Caribbean, of the Chicago Prairie style, and of the Moorish-Spanish Revival.

Perocier learned from more renowned Czech architect Antonin Nechodoma, who himself settled in Puerto Rico eventually after studying with Frank Lloyd Wright under Louis Sullivan. While most of Nechodoma's works in Puerto Rico are gone; La Quinta survives as "one of the few major examples of prairie-influenced structures in Puerto Rico and the only intact manor house of its kind in Sabana Grande."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Residencia Lassise-Schettini / La Quinta". National Park Service. Retrieved December 20, 2016. with seven photos from 1986


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