The Filardi House (), also known as Casa Muñoz (), is a historic house with ground-level commercial space in

Yauco Yauco () is a town and municipality in southern Puerto Rico. Although the downtown is inland, the municipality stretches to a southern coast facing the Caribbean Sea. Yauco is located south of Maricao, Lares and Adjuntas; east of Sabana Grande ...

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. It is notable for the extensive use of

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sculptural ornamentation on its facade. Italian immigrant Vicente Filardi, a contractor with business in Ponce and Yauco, designed and built the house in 1916 with his sons Juan Bautista and Domingo. The younger Filardis were responsible for the integration of the elaborate decorative features with the overall Beaux-Arts plan, and later came to be recognized as experts in production of ornamental elements of

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concrete. With . The house was added to the U.S.

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in 1985,. and on the

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in 2001.

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Summary sheet
from the Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office National Register of Historic Places in Yauco, Puerto Rico Houses completed in 1916 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico Beaux-Arts architecture in Puerto Rico 1916 establishments in Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-struct-stub

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