President Joaquín Crespo regarded Macuto as a place for health recovery, and a summer resort and retreat to enjoy the climate, away from the capital’s bustle. His love for building villas led him to construct a second residence in Guzmania, a few meters away from the first, contributing to the consolidation of Macuto as a beach resort town, and to a new type of homes based on Anglo-Caribbean architecture. The second Crespo villa, rectangular, with two floors and a vertical central ventilation space, has a compact configuration unlike «La Crespera», with the same perimeter gallery scheme as its predecessor. Its open nature, the scarce decoration of its façade with slim columns, the gallery with balustrades on both floors and the accessible partially flat roof, like a terrace with sea views, is reminiscent of the southern constructions on U.S. plantations. The villa, later acquired by Cipriano Castro and then sold by his heirs to Juan Vicente Gómez, was (together with the first Crespo house, Lacome-Ibarra house, Andrade house, Santana house and Villa Paula) part of the six century-old villas built in Guzmania between 1884 and 1900, which, with construction conditions and new experi-mental techniques, established a new type of «vacation villas».