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Tuesday 25 February 2020

Uncle Louis Store’s renovation a fact

SAN NICOLAS — After a ties, designed by architect admired in San Nicolas. The
nine months restauration Jan Nagel in de so-called Uncle Louis Store uses re-
work, the Uncle Louis Store ‘Nieuw Bouwen’ style. The cycled water, has a green
building in San Nicolas has building used to be a fab- wall and energy is deliv-
been inaugurated. The ric shop and they also sold ered by solar panels.
Monument Fund of Aruba fashion accessories. In the
(SMFA) who purchased beginning of the nineties SMFA is engaged in the fi-
and renovated the building the government bought nancing of restoration and
handed over the key to the the building as an office for maintenance, manage-
governmental department the customs. But for the last ment and operation of
of Nature and Environment years the building had no protected monuments and
last Friday. function anymore and was is the financial institution in
abandoned. SMFA bought the field of heritage con-
This monumental building the building and started to servation. There are three
was constructed in the fif- restore it. The result is to be organizations in Aruba that deal with everything that involves restoration, protection,
maintenance and awareness of Aruban monuments:
Monuments Council, Monuments Office and Stichting
Monumentenfonds Aruba or SMFA. The latter achieves its
goal by:
• Buying or acquiring, restoring, renting and maintain-
ing monuments
• Encouraging awareness of monuments through pho-
to contests, media, exhibitions, education, etc.
• Giving advice to monuments owners

For more information about SMFA or the Uncle Louis Store
you may contact telephone number +297 582 4014 or visit
Facebook Stichting Monumenten Fonds Aruba. q