This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico is along the north coast, north plains, and north slopes of the Cordillera, from Isabela to Guaynabo.
Names of places given are as appear in the National Register, reflecting name as given in NRHP application at the date of listing. Note, the National Register name system does not accommodate Spanish á, ñ and other letters.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted September 29, 2023. [1]
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Calle Gonzalo Marín No. 61 | October 19, 1986 (#88000645) | 61 Gonzalo Marín Street 18°28′19″N66°42′54″W / 18.4719°N 66.7149°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Traditional Spanish Colonial-style residence building from before 1860. Also known as the Abreu Residence. | |
2 | Cambalache Bridge | July 19, 1995 (#95000831) | Spanning Río Grande de Arecibo, west of Puerto Rico Highway 2 18°27′13″N66°42′09″W / 18.4535°N 66.7024°W | Cambalache and Tanamá | Steel bridge built by the Puerto Rico Railway Company in 1893 spanning the Arecibo River as a connector between San Juan and Arecibo. Also known as the French Bridge. | |
3 | Casa Alcaldía de Arecibo | September 29, 1986 (#86002762) | José de Diego Avenue 18°28′21″N66°42′56″W / 18.4725°N 66.7155°W | Arecibo Pueblo | The city hall of Arecibo, built between 1850 and 1866 in a Classical Revival style. | |
4 | Casa Córdova | November 17, 1986 (#86003185) | 14 Gonzalo Marín Street 18°28′21″N66°42′49″W / 18.4725°N 66.7135°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Historic mix-use commercial and residential building from 1898 with architecture inspired in the Neoclassical and Beaux Arts styles. Also known as Casa de las Conchas. | |
5 | Casa de la Diosa Mita | September 9, 1988 (#88000966) | 251 Fernández Juncos Street 18°28′17″N66°43′09″W / 18.4715°N 66.7191°W | Arecibo Pueblo | A now-ruined Beaux Arts house and former residence of the self-professed goddess Juanita García Peraza, founder of the Mita Congregation. | |
6 | Casa Ulanga | July 26, 1982 (#82003822) | 7 Gonzalo Marín Street 18°28′21″N66°42′46″W / 18.4725°N 66.7128°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Former Superior Court of Arecibo used throughout its history as a bank, store, city hall of Arecibo, hospital, jail and cultural center. | |
7 | Corregimiento Plaza Theater | January 6, 1986 (#86000041) | Llaguerry and Toribio Pagán Streets 18°28′22″N66°42′55″W / 18.4729°N 66.7153°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Classical Revival-style theater from 1876. Also known as the Oliver Theater. | |
8 | Edificio Oliver | October 1, 1986 (#86002764) | 64 José de Diego Avenue 18°28′21″N66°42′55″W / 18.4726°N 66.7152°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Beaux Arts-style building formerly used as a Casa del Rey, courthouse and school. Now used as a municipal office building. | |
9 | Faro de Arecibo | November 23, 1977 (#77001546) | Punta Morillos, Highway 655 18°28′55″N66°41′55″W / 18.4820°N 66.6987°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Spanish-built Neoclassical lighthouse from 1898, the last one to be built by Spain before the Spanish-American War. Part of the Lighthouse System of Puerto Rico TR. | |
10 | Federico Degetau Consolidated Rural School | May 26, 2020 (#100005236) | Carretera #662 Km. 68 18°26′45″N66°39′55″W / 18.445834°N 66.665416°W | Santana | Historic school building for primary and secondary education in the rural Santana barrio of Arecibo. | |
11 | Gonzalo Marín 101 | November 19, 1986 (#86003183) | 101 Gonzalo Marín Street 18°28′18″N66°42′56″W / 18.4718°N 66.7155°W | Arecibo Pueblo | One of the oldest purpose-built bank buildings in the region, designed in a Spanish Neoclassical style. Popularly known as the Old Citibank Building. | |
12 | National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center | September 23, 2008 (#07000525) | Highway 625, San Rafael Sector 18°20′45″N66°45′10″W / 18.3457°N 66.7527°W | Esperanza | Observatory complex consisting of radio telescopes and a LIDAR facility, most notably the Arecibo Telescope, a large spherical reflector built into a sinkhole in the middle of the Northern Puerto Rico karst region, formerly the largest of its kind in the world. | |
13 | Palacio del Marqués de las Claras | July 12, 1988 (#88000964) | 58 Gonzalo Marín Street 18°28′20″N66°42′53″W / 18.4723°N 66.7146°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Neoclassical urban mansion built in 1888 for Fernando Fernández Umpierre, Marquis de las Claras, a wealthy owner of sugarcane plantations. Formerly served as the Casino of Arecibo and currently used as an event venue. | |
14 | Paseo Víctor Rojas | November 19, 1986 (#86003188) | Gonzalo Marín Street at José de Diego Avenue 18°28′22″N66°42′42″W / 18.4727°N 66.7118°W | Arecibo Pueblo | Rectangular promenade designed in a Neoclásico Isabelino-style and built in 1881 at the site of a former Spanish fort. Also known as the Paseo de Damas. | |
15 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Graded School | February 8, 2021 (#100006152) | Calle Oriente No. 218 18°28′18″N66°43′09″W / 18.4716°N 66.7192°W | Arecibo vicinity | Historic Art Deco style school built in 1938 on top of a hill in downtown Arecibo at the site of a former hermitage. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Rafael Balseiro Maceira School | August 28, 2012 (#12000583) | 1 Georgetti Street 18°27′09″N66°32′20″W / 18.452597°N 66.538794°W | Barceloneta Pueblo | Example of the Late 19th And Early 20th Century AmericanPrairie School, Eclectic architecture movements, part of the Early Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico Thematic Resource (TR). |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Casa Dr. Agustín Stahl Stamm | February 4, 2011 (#10001216) | 14 José Martí St. 18°23′56″N66°09′19″W / 18.398781°N 66.155200°W | Bayamón Pueblo | This 1840s house was the residence and laboratory of internationally recognized scientist Agustín Stahl (1842–1917) [lower-alpha 1] from 1865 until his death. Despite a modest physician's income, Stahl published important works in zoology, botany, medicine, agriculture, ethnology, demography, and history, and led public health campaigns across Puerto Rico. [4] | |
2 | Casa Natal Dr. José Celso Barbosa | August 24, 1984 (#84003156) | 16 Barbosa St. 18°23′57″N66°09′16″W / 18.399036°N 66.154480°W | Bayamón Pueblo | House from 1850, associated with physician and sociologist José Celso Barbosa, known as the father of the Puerto Rico statehood movement. Now owned by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and operated as a historic house museum. | |
3 | Church Santa Cruz of Bayamón | September 18, 1984 (#84003162) | Plaza de Hostos 18°23′56″N66°09′21″W / 18.398796°N 66.155821°W | Bayamón Pueblo | Historic parish church from 1772, built atop a hill known as Alto del Embarcadero around which the modern city of Bayamón was developed. | |
4 | Farmacia Serra | May 4, 1989 (#88000685) | 11 Degetau St. 18°23′57″N66°09′20″W / 18.399238°N 66.155442°W | Bayamón Pueblo | Eclectic Rennaissance Revival residential and commercial mixed-use building from 1910 that housed the first store of the Serra drugstore chain. | |
5 | Marqués de la Serna Bridge | July 19, 1995 (#95000850) | Highway 890, km 24.1 18°24′10″N66°09′21″W / 18.402705°N 66.155924°W | Juan Sánchez and Bayamón Pueblo | A well-preserved rolled iron segmented arch bridge and the only one of its kind in Puerto Rico. Also known as the Bayamón Bridge or Bridge No. 379. | |
6 | Plata Bridge | July 19, 1995 (#95000849) | Highway 167, km 0.9 18°18′14″N66°12′41″W / 18.30384°N 66.21132°W | Dajaos and Nuevo [lower-alpha 2] | Bridge built to span La Plata River in 1908 consisting of two Parker truss spans, the only of its kind in Puerto Rico. | |
7 | Puerto Rico National Cemetery | September 26, 1983 (#83002298) | Highway 168 18°24′44″N66°10′00″W / 18.412222°N 66.166667°W | Hato Tejas | The only United States national cemetery outside of mainland U.S., established 1948 at a mogote-surrounded site surrounded formerly owned by the United States Navy. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Antiguo Casino Camuyano | January 26, 1984 (#84003123) | Estrella and Muñoz Rivera Streets 18°29′03″N66°50′42″W / 18.484134°N 66.845010°W | Camuy Pueblo | Classical Revival-style reinforced concrete building from 1910 that served as both a casino and as an event building | |
2 | Ernesto Memorial Chapel | July 8, 2010 (#10000453) | Intersection of Highway 486 and Highway 488 18°25′59″N66°51′16″W / 18.432953°N 66.854555°W | Abra Honda | American Craftsman-style Methodist chapel from 1912 designed by Albert Munson and built as a memorial for Ernesto Kiplinger. Popularly known as la Iglesia de Piedra (the Stone Church). | |
3 | Hacienda La Sabana | February 14, 1985 (#85000295) | Highway 119, km 9.9 18°27′15″N66°53′03″W / 18.454028°N 66.884028°W | Camuy Arriba | Ruins of a former large sugarcane plantation and manor (hacienda) built in a valley between the Camuy and Guajataca Rivers in 1773 for Don Gregorio Rodriguez. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Bacardí Distillery | August 6, 2010 (#10000524) | Highway 165, km 2.6, intersection Highway 888, Bay View Industrial Park 18°27′31″N66°08′29″W / 18.45875°N 66.141389°W | Palmas | The world's largest rum distillery and historic district consisting of twenty-four Art Deco buildings and structures designed by Henry Klumb and others, including the famous Casa Bacardi. | |
2 | Sanctuary of Blessed Martín de Porres | January 11, 2017 (#100000503) | Comercio Street and Oeste Cementerio Street 18°26′37″N66°07′59″W / 18.443700°N 66.133058°W | Palmas | Historic pilgrimage church designed in the Modernist-style by Henry Klumb. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | SS Antonio López Shipwreck Site and Remains | February 9, 1994 (#93001593) | Angelina Reef, off Mameyal Beach 18°28′48″N66°13′50″W / 18.48°N 66.230556°W | Mameyal | Sunken steel propeller merchant steam liner that once belonged to the Compañía Transatlántica Española, sunk during the Spanish–American War. Also a National Historic Landmark. | |
2 | Casa del Rey | May 19, 1989 (#89000408) | 292 Méndez Vigo Street 18°27′32″N66°15′38″W / 18.458862°N 66.260483°W | Dorado Pueblo | Built in 1823 as the local casa del rey, also functioned as the Militia Guard Headquarters and the Municipal Jail of Dorado throughout its history before being used as a private residence. Associated with writer Manuel A. Alonso Pacheco. | |
3 | Hacienda de Carlos Vassallo | March 22, 1989 (#88001848) | Highway 693, km 0 18°24′37″N66°15′45″W / 18.410229°N 66.262500°W | Maguayo | Well-preserved chimney of a former sugar-processing mill built in 1861. | |
4 | Jacinto Lopez Martinez Grammar School | October 11, 1988 (#88001846) | Norte and San Quintín Streets 18°27′36″N66°15′43″W / 18.459986°N 66.261848°W | Dorado Pueblo | Mission/Spanish Revival school from 1923, designed by Pedro Adolfo de Castro. | |
5 | Residencia Don Andrés Hernández | May 22, 1989 (#89000428) | 196 Norte Street 18°27′35″N66°15′42″W / 18.459791°N 66.261547°W | Dorado Pueblo | Well-preserved vernacular Spanish Creole house built in 1880. Also known as the Don Modesto Hernández Residence or the Casa Amarilla (Yellow House). | |
6 | Residencia Doña Antonia Ramírez | October 11, 1988 (#88001847) | Highway 693, km 7 18°25′43″N66°15′54″W / 18.428746°N 66.264922°W | Maguayo | Italianate building from 1921, designed by Camilo Munoz. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | De Luxe Florida | November 14, 2012 (#12000935) | Highway 642, km 11.1 18°21′52″N66°33′38″W / 18.364370°N 66.560476°W | Florida Adentro | Historic factory building and a prime example of the early prototypes for manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Caparra | February 28, 1984 (#84003155) | Highway 2, km 6.2 18°24′19″N66°06′50″W / 18.405239°N 66.113846°W | Pueblo Viejo | Site of original 1508 Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico by Juan Ponce de León. It also represents the oldest European settlement under United States jurisdiction. Now home of the Museum of the Conquest and Colonization of Puerto Rico. Also a National Historic Landmark. | |
2 | Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Martir de Guaynabo [lower-alpha 3] | September 8, 1976 (#76002250) | Plaza de Recreo 18°21′28″N66°06′42″W / 18.357814°N 66.111608°W | Guaynabo Pueblo | Historic parish church built between 1750 and 1775, it is the oldest building still-standing in Guaynabo. [6] | |
3 | Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono | July 3, 2012 (#12000396) | 1729 José E. Carazo St. 18°21′32″N66°06′38″W / 18.358804°N 66.110525°W | Guaynabo Pueblo | Art Deco telegraph and telephone station and office building designed by José Hernández Márquez and constructed by the Communications Authority of Puerto Rico in 1948. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Church Nuestra Señora del Carmen of Hatillo | December 10, 1984 (#84000443) | Luis M. Lacomba Street 18°29′12″N66°49′31″W / 18.486541°N 66.825279°W | Hatillo Pueblo | Historic church from 1879 designed by Pedro A. Beibal. Part of the Historic Churches of Puerto Rico MPS. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Hermitage of San Antonio de Padua de la Tuna | December 2, 1983 (#83004193) | Ermita Street, La Tuna sector, Highway 2, km 106.1 [8] 18°28′43″N66°57′48″W / 18.478613°N 66.963390°W | Coto | Ruins of a former village church dating to 1730 that was abandoned in the early 19th-century. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Brunet–Calaf Residence | September 1, 1988 (#88001306) | Corner of Quiñones and Patriota Pozo Streets 18°25′39″N66°29′34″W / 18.427628°N 66.492825°W | Manatí Pueblo | Ruined former residence of the Brunet-Calaf family, representative of the residential architectural tendencies of the epoch. It was destroyed by a fire in 2016. | |
2 | Church Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria y San Matías of Manatí | September 18, 1984 (#84003130) | Patriota Pozo Street, Town Plaza 18°25′38″N66°29′33″W / 18.427280°N 66.492403°W | Manatí Pueblo | Historic parish church from 1729. Part of the Historic Churches of Puerto Rico MPS. | |
3 | La Colectiva Tabacalera | September 1, 1988 (#88001305) | 18 Quiñones Street 18°25′40″N66°29′31″W / 18.427789°N 66.491964°W | Manatí Pueblo | Industrial Neoclassical building from 1880 formerly used as a tobacco warehouse. | |
4 | Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza | August 11, 1976 (#76002190) | Northwest of Manatí on Highway 616 18°28′03″N66°31′31″W / 18.467488°N 66.525151°W | Tierras Nuevas Poniente | 2,265-acre sugarcane plantation owned by José Ramon Fernández, 1st Marquis of La Esperanza consisting of several industrial buildings and an early 19th-century manor house. The slave quarters, trapiche and steam engines are still preserved. Also named a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. | |
5 | Plaza del Mercado de Manatí | August 19, 1988 (#88001303) | Quiñones, Padial and Baldorioty Streets 18°25′37″N66°29′37″W / 18.427061°N 66.493542°W | Manatí Pueblo | Art Deco and Mission/Spanish Revival architecture from 1925, designed by Rafael Carmoega. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Puente Blanco | February 23, 1984 (#84003126) | Spanning Quebrada Mala Canyon on Panoramica Street 18°29′10″N66°55′34″W / 18.486115°N 66.926088°W | Terranova | Bridge designed by Etienne Totti and built in 1922 across the Quebrada Mala Canyon. | |
2 | Teatro Liberty | May 4, 1989 (#88000963) | 157 Rafols Street 18°28′24″N66°56′21″W / 18.473449°N 66.939285°W | Quebradillas Pueblo | Historic theater and performing arts venue from 1921 designed by Arcilio Rosa. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Church San Sebastián Mártir of San Sebastián | September 18, 1984 (#84003132) | Severo Arana Street, Town Plaza 18°20′12″N66°59′26″W / 18.336777°N 66.990445°W | San Sebastián Pueblo | Late 19th century church building and one of the five historic churches designed by Puerto Rico state architect Pedro Cobreros. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Church Nuestra Señora de la Concepción y San Fernando of Toa Alta | September 18, 1984 (#84003158) | Ponce de León Street, Town Plaza 18°23′18″N66°14′50″W / 18.388245°N 66.247331°W | Toa Alta Pueblo | Historic parish church from 1752. Part of the Historic Churches of Puerto Rico TR. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Ermita Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Plantaje | June 30, 2015 (#15000398) | Highway 866 18°26′48″N66°09′49″W / 18.446711°N 66.163592°W | Sabana Seca | A now ruined hermitage built at the former plantation of Hacienda del Plantaje. | |
2 | Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apostol de Toa Baja [lower-alpha 4] | April 17, 1975 (#75002135) | 47 Las Flores Street 18°26′33″N66°15′18″W / 18.442476°N 66.255108°W | Toa Baja Pueblo | Historic parish church known for its unusual layout, facing La Plata River rather than the town square. Visited by Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra in 1775. [9] | |
3 | San Juan National Historic Site | October 15, 1966 (#66000930) | Isla de Cabras [lower-alpha 5] 18°27′59″N66°08′11″W / 18.466389°N 66.136389°W | Palo Seco | The Fortín San Juan de la Cruz unit, a Spanish fort from 1630 built at Isla de Cabras across from El Morro at the entrance to the San Juan Bay. | |
4 | Santa Elena Hacienda | September 24, 1992 (#83004662) | North of the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 165 18°25′50″N66°15′28″W / 18.430559°N 66.257687°W | Media Luna | A now ruined 500-acre sugarcane plantation and industrial complex from 1790 located in the Toa Valley, one of the earliest Spanish-developed agricultural regions in Puerto Rico and important in the historical establishment of rum and molasses production in the island. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Church Inmaculada Conception of Vega Alta | September 18, 1984 (#84003128) | Town Plaza 18°24′43″N66°19′45″W / 18.412076°N 66.329171°W | Vega Alta Pueblo | Historic church dating from 1831. Part of the Historic Churches of Puerto Rico TR. |
[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed [3] | Location | Barrio | Description |
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1 | Casa Alonso | December 13, 1996 (#96001491) | 34 Betances Avenue 18°26′39″N66°23′11″W / 18.444060°N 66.386301°W | Vega Baja Pueblo | Spanish Colonial residence and historic house museum associated with families related to the local sugarcane industry. Now part of the municipally owned Museum of Art, History and Culture. | |
2 | Church Santa María del Rosario of Vega Baja | September 18, 1984 (#84003133) | Town Plaza 18°26′40″N66°23′12″W / 18.444322°N 66.386783°W | Vega Baja Pueblo | Historic parish church from 1860. Part of the Historic Churches of Puerto Rico TR. | |
3 | Panteón Otero-Martínez | July 30, 1984 (#84003135) | Old Vega Baja Cemetery, Highway 670 18°26′41″N66°23′35″W / 18.444722°N 66.393056°W | Algarrobo | A Classical Revival mausoleum from 1886 located in the Old Vega Baja Cemetery. | |
4 | Paso del Indio Site | July 25, 2007 (#07000583) | Address restricted [10] | Address restricted [10] | One of the largest and deepest stratified multi-component prehistoric occupation archeological sites in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. |
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