This Caribbean-Aruban styled mansion was erected between 1922 and 1925. Eloy Arends commissioned the construction of the building before his marriage to Maria Monica Lacle. Tradition in well-to-do families in Aruba at the time stipulated that on the day of his marriage a man had to present his wife a new and fully furnished house.

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In 1986 the estate was sold to the government of Aruba, together with the adjacent Hotel Colombia building with the stipulation that both the buildings would be restored. Over the years the building fell into ruin and later the roof was destroyed beyond repair by a large fire, and only ruins remained.
It was restored and combined with the Hotel Colombia building into a new Aruba town hall complex, and currently houses a council hall and function spaces for the performance of civil marriage ceremonies on Aruba.

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