Guaynabo is a city, suburb of San Juan and municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico, located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas, south of Cataño, east of Bayamón, and west of San Juan. Guaynabo is spread over 9 barrios and Guaynabo Pueblo. Guaynabo is considered, along with its neighbors – San Juan and the municipalities of Bayamón, Carolina, Cataño, Trujillo Alto, and Toa Baja – to be part of the San Juan metropolitan area. It is also part of the larger San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area,.
Toa Baja is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the northern coast, north of Toa Alta and Bayamón; east of Dorado; and west of Cataño. Toa Baja is spread over five barrios, including Toa Baja Pueblo. Toa Baja is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. Toa Baja is located fifteen minutes by car from San Juan and two hours from Ponce.
Old San Juan is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" of the islet of San Juan in San Juan. Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios (sub-districts) of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Old San Juan is the oldest settlement within Puerto Rico and the historic colonial district of the city of San Juan. This historic district is a National Historic Landmark District and is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places as the Old San Juan Historic District. Several historical buildings and structures, particularly La Fortaleza, the city walls, and El Morro and San Cristóbal castles, have been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list since 1983. Historically the mixed use commercial and residential real estate in the main streets like Cristo Street, Fortaleza Street (north) from Tanca Street to the Governor’s Mansion is the most valuable in the area and it has kept its value and increased steadily through several years despite the past economic turmoils.
This is a list of properties and historic districts that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Puerto Rico. There are 368 NRHP listings in Puerto Rico, with one or more NRHP listings in each of Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities.
The Catholic Church in Puerto Rico is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope in Rome. The 78 municipalities in Puerto Rico have a Catholic church which is located in the downtown area, normally across from the central plaza.
Caparra is an archaeological site in the municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1994. The site contains the remains of the first Spanish capital of the island, settled in 1508 and abandoned in 1521. It represents the oldest known European settlement on United States territory.
This is a list of properties and districts in the southern municipalities of Puerto Rico that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It includes places along the southern coast of the island, and on the south slope of Puerto Rico's Cordillera Central.
McCabe Memorial Church, also known as Iglesia Metodista Unida de la Playa de Ponce, is a historic church building in Barrio Playa in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It dates from 1908, and was designed by Antonin Nechodoma. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is one of four places such listed in Barrio Playa, the others being the U.S. Customs House, the Caja de Muertos Light, and the Cardona Island Light.
The Iglesia San Sebastián Mártir in the plaza in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico was completed in 1897 and listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Barrio Playa, also known as Playa de Ponce, Ponce Playa, or La Playa, is one of the thirty-one barrios that comprise the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Bucaná, Canas, Vayas, and Capitanejo, Playa is one of the municipality's five coastal barrios. Barrio Playa also incorporates several islands, the largest of which is Caja de Muertos. It was founded in 1831.
Guaynabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Guaynabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,008.
The Catedral Santiago Apóstol, or in English, the Cathedral of St. James the Apostle, or Santiago Apóstol of Fajardo is a Catholic cathedral located on the town plaza in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Along with Concatedral Dulce Nombre de Jesus in Humacao it is the seat of the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Church Santiago Apóstol of Fajardo in 1984.
This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico covers the municipality of San Juan.
Toa Baja barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Toa Baja, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 565.
The Iglesia Parroquial de San Antonio de Padua is a historic, Roman Catholic parish church in Guayama, Puerto Rico. The parish was erected in 1736 and the first church building completed no later than 1775. The original appearance of the building is unknown, but some of the eighteenth century walls may survive in the present structure. The building was rebuilt twice in the nineteenth century and the present appearance dates from 1874. It takes an overall Romanesque form, while the details exhibit the eclecticism that characterized much Puerto Rican architecture in the later 1800s.
The San Pedro Mártir Parish Church of Guaynabo is a historic parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico, located in Guaynabo Pueblo in the Puerto Rican municipality of the same name. The church was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1976.
The Saints Peter and Matthew the Apostles Parish Church of Toa Baja, better known as the St. Peter the Apostle Parish Church of Toa Baja, is a historic 16h-century Roman Catholic parish church located in the main town square of Toa Baja Pueblo, the administrative and historic center of the municipality of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.
The Church, School, Convent and Parish House of San Agustín is a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed historic religious complex located in the Puerta de Tierra historic district of San Juan Antiguo in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The complex consists of the Church of St. Augustine, its adjacent Augustinian convent and the parish house. The church itself was one of the first structures to be built using only concrete in the island and for this reason it is also listed in the Inventory of Historic Churches of Puerto Rico in 1990 in addition to being listed in the NRHP since 1985. The church complex is a contributing property, and, along the Capitol of Puerto Rico, it forms part of the monumental sequence of buildings, memorials and parks along the Ponce de León Avenue that constitute the Puerta de Tierra Historic District.
