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Casa Klumb
The Casa Klumb, also known as Cody Ranch, is a 1949 house designed by German-born architect Henry Klumb in Modern Movement architecture. The house is located at #1 Ramon B. Lopez St. in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Casa Klumb was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1997.〔〔 and (accompanying photos )〕
==History==
The property where Casa Klumb is originally belonged to José Ramón Latimer and his wife Esther C. Cody, who lived there at the end of the 19th Century. Eventually, Cody inherited the property and the house became known as the Cody Ranch.
In 1943, architect Henry Klumb, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright, was invited by then-Governor of Puerto Rico Rexford Tugwell to serve as Director of the Design Committee of Public Works. As a result, Klumb moved to the island in 1944 with his wife, Else, and their two children, Peter and Richard. Klumb bought the Cody Ranch in 1947, and the remodeling began in 1949. Klumb and his wife lived in the house until their death in November 1984 as a result of a car accident.
After Klumb's death, the house was acquired by the University of Puerto Rico in 1986. In 1997, it was included in the National Register of Historic Places as a Regional Monument for its architectural relevance. However, with time, the house has been abandoned and is currently inaccessible and deteriorated. Several organizations have made efforts to restore it, and in 2014, the Comité Casa Klumb was founded. In 2012, its status was elevated to National Monument by the NRHP, and it is also part of the World Monuments Fund, which helps in the process of gathering funds to restore monuments. According to Dr. Enrique Vivoni Farange, director of the Architectural and Construction Archives of the University of Puerto Rico, the costs of restoring the house ascend to $1.9 million.
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