Nikolski (2005)
“The two buildings, lost in the heights of La Asunción, share the same massive design, meant to withstand the frequent pirate raids to which Margarita Island was subject at the time.
The house is said to have been commissioned by a businessman from Nueva Cádiz, who had made a fortune in the pearl trade and from the enslavement of Guaiquerí Indians. The sudden depletion of the oyster stocks forced him to sell the newly built, never inhabited mansion. Thus hastily disposed of, the troublesome prop...erty passed from hand to hand without ever belonging to anyone for very long. It was owned in turn by a general of the Spanish army, a businessman, an architect, five notaries, a member of the National Assembly, a former Brazilian prospector, an English industrialist, a Greek shipowner, and two dentists.
Legend has it that in 1816, during the War of Independence, the mansion was requisitioned for the overnight billeting of Simón Bolívar.
Don Eduardo became the house’s fifteenth owner in 1961.MoreLess
The house is said to have been commissioned by a businessman from Nueva Cádiz, who had made a fortune in the pearl trade and from the enslavement of Guaiquerí Indians. The sudden depletion of the oyster stocks forced him to sell the newly built, never inhabited mansion. Thus hastily disposed of, the troublesome prop...erty passed from hand to hand without ever belonging to anyone for very long. It was owned in turn by a general of the Spanish army, a businessman, an architect, five notaries, a member of the National Assembly, a former Brazilian prospector, an English industrialist, a Greek shipowner, and two dentists.
Legend has it that in 1816, during the War of Independence, the mansion was requisitioned for the overnight billeting of Simón Bolívar.
Don Eduardo became the house’s fifteenth owner in 1961.MoreLess
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