COSTA RICA
TENEMENT HOUSE OF ORTIZ
[Av.7/calle 13]. It is rectangle-base three-floor building (next to the Yellow Building). It was built in 1944 by Teodorico Quiros. At the beginning on its place stood famous Victoria Mill. Then the terrain was bought by ex-president Rafael Yglesias. In 1938 the new owner ing. Francisco Jimenez Ortiz planned firstly opening the ceramic factory. It`s distinguished by large, cut corner with adornate attic, half-rounded oriel on which is put the balcony and by corrugated columns. Lately it was a set for the Costa Rican movie "Password".
SAN JOSE
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