According to this document published by the Puerto Rico Office of Historic Preservation, the earliest owner of this hacienda was Italian immigrant from Sapri, Salerno, Campania, Italy Vicente Lacorte Florenciani, (1849-1897) who was married to Yauco born Nieves Bartolomei Córdova (1853-1899).  Per the marriage certificate of their son Victor Lacorte Bartolomei to Rufina Vazquez Cruz in Comerio, PR in October 1896, Vicente and Nieves still lived in Las Marias, however, they returned to Sapri, where they both died.

The firm Enseñat & Cia. was comprised of cousins Francisco Enseñat and José Enseñat Mayol (1870- ) who emigrated to Puerto Rico from Sóller, Mallorca, Spain in 1886 according to the 1910 census records.  We do not have much information about Francisco other that he was a member of Enseñat & Cia. with his recently arrived cousin. 

Per information in the document linked above, prior to acquiring then one hundred eighty eight cuerdas Hacienda Jardines from Vicente Lacorte Florenciani in 1888, Enseñat & Cia. had acquired Hacienda Espino-2 which adjoined Hacienda Jardines to the north.  Sometime between 1889 and 1891 depending on the census record, José's brother Jaime Enseñat Mayol (1874-1956) arrived on the island and joined the firm.   

Sometime during the 1890s, Enseñat & Cia. was dissolved and according to the PR Office of Historic Preservation document linked above, José retained Hacienda Jardines as his own.  The 1898 Colonial Business Directory of Puerto Rico, Francisco Enseñat oprated a dry goods and hardware store in Las Marias.  

The 1910 Census taken in April of that year, show José as "Agricultor Finca de café" and Jaime "Mayordomo Finca de Café" both single, living in Barrio Chamorro of Las Marias.  José retuned to live in Spain not too long after April 1910 when he sold Hacienda Jardines to his brother Jaime who later acquired the adjoining seventy acre Bryan Estate from Mercedes Arana de Bryan.  

Jaime first spouse was Rosa Valentin Cardona of which marriage were born Maria (1911- ) and José (1917- ) Enseñat Valentin.  ​On May 28, 1933 Jaime married Rosa Bartolomei Valentín (1887-1967) from which relationship a son,  José Enseñat Bartolomei (1928-2001) had been born some five years earlier.  After the death of Jaime in 1956, Hacienda Jardines was inherited by José Enseñat Bartolomei who at one point in time also owned the nearby Hacieda San Calixto.

Common lore has it that Nieves Bartolomei Córdova, the wife of Vicente Lacorte Florenciani was the sister of Rosa Bartolomei Valentin, the wife of Jaime Enseñat Mayol.  Nieves was the daughter of Corsican Juan Bartolomei Luchetti (1818-1903) and Nieves Córdova and Rosa was the daughter of Juan Bartolomei and Ramona Valentin.  Due to their thirty four years difference in age, although both their fathers were named Juan and may have been related, it is reasonable to believe they were not the same person. 

In the late 1930s, some eighteen acres of Hacienda Jardines were deeded to the Puerto Rico Emergency Reconstruction Administration(PRERA).  In 1974 José Enseñat Bartolomei sold most of the two hundred forty cuerdas of Hacienda Jardines to the Government of Puerto Rico retaining some forty five cuerdas which is its current land extension.  ​ 

Hacienda Jardines was also known as Hacienda Enseñat and as Hacienda El Hoyo.  It is located on PR-124 in Barrio Chamorro of Las Marias. Some of the pictures below are part of a 1987 study made by Archeologist Luis Pumarada O'Neill obtained by courtesy of the Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office.  Some are recent photos provided by Alma Enseñat Planell, daughter of José Enseñat Bartolomei.