The charm of modernisme

A very elegant family residence, Casa Queraltó is easily distinguished from the other buildings by its original pink sgraffito work, which brightens up the whole facade. It was designed by the architect Josep Plantada Artigas between 1906 and 1907 with a clear Modernista influence.

Quality architecture

Huge in size and chamfered in structure, Casa Queraltó takes up the whole of the corner between Rambla de Catalunya and Carrer de Mallorca. It used to be crowned by some pinnacles and a little temple that have now gone.

Casa Queraltó still has several attractive, semicircular bay windows on one side, highly decorated with arches and columns, which make it a building of great architectural beauty. And it was in this house that the future American ambassador, Teodoro Moscoso, was born in 1910. As a politician he also drove Puerto Rico’s economic development between 1950 and 1970.