Home Tour:
PATRICIA REID BAQUERO

"I think this city should be lived in. I don’t want it to become a museum."

The garden is ripe with pomegranates and pears. Orchids and ginger flowers are abundant. There’s a pineapple centerpiece on the outdoor coffee table.

The house that this garden hems is interior designer Patricia Reid Baquero’s private residence. It’s a tropical oasis tucked inside Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone—the oldest part of the city, known colloquiallyas La Zona. In the morning, it hums with parrot songs.

As a child growing up in the Dominican capital, Reid Baquero adored strolling through the neighborhood with her mother, watching the domino players, bohemian artists and religious processions that dominated life at a street level. So when she found this property in 1980, she didn’t hesitate. At that time, it was used as a multipurpose workshop rather than a home. “Ther...