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The city hall is located in Old San Juan, in front of the Plaza de Armas and next to the Antiguo Palacio de la Real Intendencia (Palace of the Royal Intendancy), which today hosts the Puerto Rico Department of State. The San Juan City Hall was built in stages from 1604 to 1789. It went through numerous additions and expansions throughout its ...
Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 13. Item 66. Also p. 15. Item 76. LCCN 92-75480; Osvaldo Garcia. Fotografias para la Historia de Puerto Rico, 1844–1952. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1989. (CUTPO/UPR). Has pictures of the last people to die by clubbing ...
Casa Alcaldía de Arecibo (Spanish for Arecibo City Hall), formerly known as the Casa Consistorial, is the historic city hall and municipal administrative headquarters of the Puerto Rican municipality of Arecibo located in the Plaza Mayor in downtown Arecibo (Arecibo Pueblo). [1]
The Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas) is a Puerto Rican government program adopted by the state Planning Board (Junta de Planificación) for use by both private and public entities to evaluate, register, revitalize, develop or protect the built historic and cultural heritage of Puerto Rico in the context and for economic ...
National Register entries listed below are found in the highlighted 8 municipalities of Puerto Rico. 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 (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos).
Grand Spiritual Lodge No. 1 (Spanish: Gran Logia Espiritual Número 1), also known as Casa de las Almas ('house of the souls'), is a historic building and Spiritualist meeting hall located in Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [1] It was designed by Luis F. Delgado and Juan Rivera Paris using a simple but elegant Neoclassical style.
Casa Ulanga, also known as the former Superior Court of Arecibo (Spanish: Antiguo Tribunal Superior de Arecibo), is a historic building located at 7 Gonzalo Marín Street in the historic center of the Puerto Rican municipality of Arecibo.
In 1898, the U.S. Government took possession of Puerto Rico and established a presence on the island. When the United States established a governance structure for Puerto Rico in 1900, the need for public buildings became apparent. [2] The structure is composed of two distinct but connected buildings.