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The Archivo General de Puerto Rico (General Archives of Puerto Rico), established in 1955, is an archive documenting the history and culture of Puerto Rico. The governmental Institute of Puerto Rican Culture began overseeing its operation in 1956. It is located in a building shared with the national library on Avenida Juan Ponce de León in San ...
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Río Piedras massacre: 1935-10-24 Río Piedras: 5 [1]Ponce massacre: 1937-03-21 Ponce: 21 [2]Utuado uprising: 1950-10-30 Utuado
The General Archives of Puerto Rico was formally created by Law 5 of December 8, 1955, and placed under the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture which had been created six months before. The main function of the entity is to safeguard and conserve the most important inactive documents of Puerto Rico's territorial government, both under United ...
Researchers at the Archivo Histórico de Ponce. The Archivo Histórico de Ponce comprises all the documentation generated by the agencies of the municipality of Ponce as well as donations by private citizens. It also contains documentation about other municipalities in Puerto Rico. [14] Archivo Histórico has some 100 million archived documents.
El Día: decano de la prensa de Puerto Rico [276] [477] Ponce [478] 1911 (May 2) [479] [467] 1970 [480] Archivo Histórico Municipal de Ponce (entire printed collection) [481] This paper was the successor of El Diario de Puerto Rico (1909–1911); Eugenio Astol, director; Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso become its director in 1928. [482]
The exterior and façade of the building showcase the traditional Spanish Colonial architecture of the 19th-century contemporary churches of Puerto Rico with elements inspired in Renaissance and Neoclassical architecture. With the exception of routine renovations and the removal of the Renaissance-style side pillars and arcades of the church in ...
The Iglesia San Sebastián Mártir (English: Church of Saint Sebastian the Martyr) in the plaza in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico was completed in 1897. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1984, [1] and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2001.
The church was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1976, [1] and to the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000. [2] The church is the oldest building in Guaynabo, and it was established as a parish in 1775.