Urban Domestic and Commercial Traditional Buildings
The best example of Dominica’s urban domestic and commercial traditional buildings can be seen within five hundred yards of the Old Market in Roseau.
Roseau the capital of Dominica can be described as a city of verandahs and happily even modern houses are following the style – decorative fretwork on the older wooden house, the ‘jalousie’ windows and the heavy wooden hurricane shutters.Local awareness of the value and charm of these buildings is unfortunately very weak and several buildings have been torn down and suffered ugly replacements.
Add comment September 9th, 2006 (at 07:59am) Written by: Chris
The best examples of our military architecture are at Cabrits National Park in the North of the island. Fort Shirley and the thirty or so other ruins scattered across the headland show all the details of 18th century British defense systems. A Little battery sits at Fort Cachacrou on top of Scotts Heads. At Fort Young much has change, the outline and fac,ade of the compact little fort can clearly be seen. One of the oldest surviving administrative buildings is the Post Office built in 1810, and the Roseau Town Council building is worth mentioning that it’s one of the last surviving Slave trading compounds in the Caribbean.
The best example are the Cathedral in Roseau in the style of Gothic – Romanesque revival; Massacre church clinging to a steep slope; it’s massive walls and Hispanic fac,ade of vieille Case Church; the simple French country style of La Plaine church and Soufriere church with its main door a few feet from the beach.
