Central High School | |
 Central High School in San Juan | |
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| Location | Ponce de Leon Ave., Santurce, Puerto Rico |
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| Coordinates | 18°26′53″N66°04′11″W / 18.44815°N 66.06977°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1925 |
| Architect | Adrian C. Finlayson |
| Architectural style | Spanish Renaissance |
| MPS | Early Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 87001309 [1] |
| RNSZH No. | 2000-(RMSJ)-00-JP-SH |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | August 4, 1987 |
| Designated RNSZH | February 3, 2000 |
Central High School, also known as La Central or La Central High, is a school located in Santurce barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The 1925-built building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000. [1] [2]
It is a three-story, U-shaped building with Spanish Renaissance architecture. [3]
Its National Register nomination asserts that "Central High School is, for many reasons, the most important school structure built in Puerto Rico in the first decades of the XXth century." [3]
It was built as part of a building program that also yielded the Ponce High School, built in 1915, and the Gautier Benítez High School in Caguas, built in 1924.
