San Juan is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico.
The Edificio Aboy is a private three-level residence located in San Juan, on the island of Puerto Rico. It is located in Miramar, an area of Santurce, which is a barrio of San Juan.
The Aguayo Aldea Vocational High School, popularly known as La Vocacional, is a historic school in Caguas, Puerto Rico, named after Nicolás Aguayo Aldea, a Puerto Rican writer and politician from the 19th century. The Art Deco building dates to 1939 and was designed by architects Lizardi & Díaz Diez.
The Advanced Defense Line is a historic district consisting of four structures that formed part of the eastern defensive system of the Islet of San Juan in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Miami Building, also known as the Miami Apartments or the 868 Ashford Building, is a historic Art Deco building located in the Ashford Avenue of the Condado section of Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Teatro Ideal, also known as La Plaza Theater, is a historic theater and performing arts venue located in the main town square of Yauco Pueblo, the administrative and historic center of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico. The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The Nazario Rivera Residence is a late 19th-century historic house located in Mayagüez Pueblo, the administrative and historic center of the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The house is a traditional L-shaped residential structure of 19th-century Puerto Rico with spacious interiors that are traditional of Mayagüez, where dining and living rooms have very high ceilings. The house was built in 1872 by Joaquín Hernández, following designs signed by a Mr. Bayron.
The José Celso Barbosa Graded School is a historic school building located in the Puerta de Tierra historic district in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The school is named after Puerto Rico statehood movement founder Dr. José Celso Barbosa and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1989. The school was built between 1924 and 1927 and designed by the firm del Valle & Co. in a Neoclassical-style with the intention of making it a public secondary school for recently graduated students from the nearby Brambaugh School. It forms part of the monumental sequence of buildings and memorials that contribute to the Puerta de Tierra Historic District which also includes the Capitol of Puerto Rico.
The Jaime Acosta y Fores Residence, also known as the Doña Delia Acosta House, is a historic vernacular Creole residence located in the historic center (pueblo) of the municipality of San Germán, Puerto Rico. The house was built in 1917 in the traditional Spanish Creole-inspired vernacular style that was popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Puerto Rico. It was designed by architect and engineer Luis Pardo for Jaime Acosta y Fores, a wealthy sugarcane plantation owner who built it for his wife Delia López as a wedding gift. The interior of the house was much less traditional, integrating influences from styles such as Art Nouveau. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as it is well-preserved and has suffered no significant modifications throughout the years.
659 Concordia is a historic Mission Revival house located in Miramar, a historic residential area of Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The house was built in 1935 from a design render by architect Joseph O'Kelly, a Columbia University-graduate who moved to Puerto Rico in 1922 and became involved in the construction of several notorious projects such as the Capitol of Puerto Rico and several structures in the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. The residence, along with others in the area designed by Puerto Rican architect Pedro Adolfo de Castro, helped usher the Mission Revival style in the island.
665 McKinley Street is a historic Spanish Creole vernacular-style house located in Miramar, a historic residential area of Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The house was built in 1906 during a transitional period in the history of architecture in Puerto Rico when the local adaptations of Spanish vernacular styles were transitioning into the Spanish Revival styles that was being imported from the United States and adapted into the tropical environments of the island. The house is well-preserved and retains all elements of this period and, with the exception of the rear balcony, no modifications or alterations that modify the architectural integrity have been made. For this reason, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
659 La Paz is a historic Mission Revival house designed by famed Puerto Rican architect Pedro Adolfo de Castro located in Miramar, a historic residential area of Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The house was built in 1928, and it was the first of various private residences in Miramar designed by Pedro Adolfo de Castro that, along with structures such as Castillo Serrallés, were instrumental in ushering the Mission Revival architectural style in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Ilustrado/El Mundo Building is a historic Art Deco high-rise building located in the Old San Juan historic district of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The building was erected in 1923 to serve as the headquarters of the El Mundo newspaper and the Puerto Rico Ilustrado magazine. The architecture of the building blends numerous styles that represent the conjunction of various artistic movements and architectural schools of the late 19th century and the early 20th century. It is located in a high-rise block that faces the elevated La Palma Bastion portion of the city wall of San Juan which, when observed from beyond, makes the building look taller than it is in reality. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 for its architectural and historic importance.
Edificio del Valle is a historic mixed-use building located at 1118 Ponce de León Avenue of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was built in 1941 by the Santurce Development Company and designed by famed Puerto Rican architect Rafael Carmoega, who also designed famous buildings such as the Capitol of Puerto Rico and the University of Puerto Rico clock tower among others. It is a five-story reinforced concrete structure with commercial and retail spaces on its ground level and 16 apartments in the rest. Edificio del Valle has a distinctive Spanish/Mission Revival-style, evident in many of Carmoega's works, with eclectic elements that reference both the local vernacular, Neoclassical and the Modernist styles of the period.
Edificio Patio Español, also known as La Filarmónica Building, is a mixed-use building located in the Old San Juan historic district of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was designed in a Spanish Mission Revival-style by civil engineer Eduardo Fossas López and built in 1937 with the purpose of refilling an emptied lot of the old city with a structure that resembled and referenced the Spanish Colonial architecture around it. This emptied lot was formerly the site of a meeting house for a group called Sociedad La Filarmónica, a scholarly club that was founded by Manuel de Elzaburú and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera with the intention of promoting cultural activities in the city of San Juan. The Patio Español building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Grand Spiritual Lodge No. 1, also known as Casa de las Almas, is a historic building and Spiritualist meeting hall located in Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was designed by Luis F. Delgado and Juan Rivera Paris using a simple but elegant Neoclassical style. The structure was built by members of the lodge in 1928 with the intended purpose of serving as a Spiritualist meeting hall for a local Spiritualist lodge founded in 1910. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 for its historic and architectural significance.
Villa Victoria is a historic house located in the Santurce area of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Formerly a private single-family residence, Villa Victoria has served as a local chapter and the San Juan headquarters of the YWCA since 1955, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Templo del Maestro is a historic Beaux Arts building from 1937 that originally served as the seat of the Puerto Rico Teachers Association. The building faces the Luis Muñoz Rivera Park and Supreme Court Building across Juan Ponce de León Avenue in the Puerta de Tierra historic district, a sequence of historically and culturally significant buildings and monuments that includes the Puerto Rico National Library, the Athenaeum and El Capitolio.
La Familia is the name of a mural by Puerto Rican muralist Rafael Ríos Rey located in the Barrio Obrero Community Center in Santurce, in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The mural depicts various scenes from the history of Puerto Rico with references to the popular culture, arts and folklore of the island. The centerpiece of the mural is a traditional working-class family, the namesake of the artwork. La Familia was commissioned by the municipal government of San Juan for the exterior of the newly built community center at Barrio Obrero, a working-class neighborhood of Santurce. The mural was greatly affected by Hurricane Maria in 2017. That same year it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2017 where it is described as a superb example of Venetian mosaics art form in Puerto Rico and as one of the most influential works of art created by Rafael Ríos Rey. Other murals also created by Ríos Rey located in the Ponce YMCA and Edificio Empresas Ferré have also been distinguished by the National Park Service and listed into the NRHP.
The Loaiza Cordero Institute for Blind Children, also known as the Puerto Rican Institute for Blind Children, is a former hospital and school complex for blind children and now a historic district located in the Santurce area of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The historic district is located in a large urban block in the Figueroa subbarrio of Santurce, bound by the Manuel Fernández Juncos Avenue to the northeast, Hipódromo Avenue to the southeast, Las Palmas Street to the southwest and Figueroa Street to the northwest. The historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 due to its historical and architectural significance.
