National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Puerto Rico
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). It includes places along the southern coast of the island, and on the south slope of Puerto Rico's Cordillera Central.
The area covered spans from the city of Yauco on the southwest coast to the Guayama municipality at the southeast.
Names of places given are as they 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.
Built in 1887, this house is one of the best remaining examples of southern Puerto Rico's 19th-century vernacular style of urban domestic architecture, blended with extensive Neoclassical elements. Especially notable is the house's masonry, wood, and metal ornamentation. It was acquired for use as a museum in 1979.[5][4]
This 1891 iron bridge carries the nineteenth century highway between Guayama and Cayey, which was once the only link between the coastal east of Puerto Rico and the rest of the island. Its lateral lattice girder design is characteristic of Puerto Rico but rare in the United States.[6]
Built in 1908, this school was designed during a period when schools were gaining importance as civic institutions in Puerto Rico. Its simplified Neoclassical design emphasized this shift, and it became a prototype for a generation of school construction on the island.[7]
This church was first built in the 18th century and rebuilt twice in the 19th century and its 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.[8]
The Vives Sugar Mill, built c. 1828, comprises the remains of a windmill and processing building. Constructed of river rock, cut granite, and some brick, it contrasts with later industrial buildings built primarily of brick. The mill recalls an era when the sugar industry used slave labor almost exclusively, and witnessed a slave uprising in the first half of the 19th century.[9][10]
Completed in 1926, this primary school epitomizes the monumental schools built in Puerto Rico during the early 20th century. Its Neoclassical and Spanish Revival details at the entry and spatial sequence of the vestibule are exceptional design features.[11]
Built by the Spanish administration during 1846–1886 to connect San Juan with Ponce, this was one of the first modern roadways in Puerto Rico and was regarded as one of the finest roads in the Americas for years after its completion. The listed portion of the road, from Caguas to Juana Díaz, includes the exceptionally challenging engineering through the Cordillera Central, 11 major bridges, 14 maintenance workers' houses,[b] and numerous other roadway structures.[12][13]
This Baroquechurch built in 1807[d] retains most of its original design, construction, and materials, including masonry walls, towers, sacristies, interior arcades, dome, and wooden spiral stairway in the south tower. The church's placement in the town plaza and close to the town hall reflect the Crown-mandated urban design principles of the early 19th century.[14][16]
This cave includes more than 100 pre-Hispanic petroglyphs and pictographs dating possibly as early as the 7th century C.E., "making it one of the best examples of aboriginal rock art in the Antilles." Most of the images are zoomorphic in nature. It has been known to archaeologists since at least the early 1900s.[18]
Designer Francisco Gardón Vega[f] employed a mixture of Beaux-Arts and Spanish Revival styles in this 1927 school, a common stylistic approach in Puerto Rico at the time. The school quickly became a centerpiece of public architecture in Peñuelas, surpassing the church and city hall, and remains important to local public identity.[19]
This aqueduct, completed in 1878 and in service until 1928, was the key component of Ponce's first system for distribution of potable water. It exemplifies 19th century design principles, and recalls civic investments to promote the welfare of urban inhabitants. Of the aqueduct's total length of 4 kilometers (2.5 mi), about 400 meters (1,300 ft) are included in the historic listing.[20]
Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers-built hospital from 1878 designed in the Neoclásico Isabelino style. Part of the 19th Century Civil Architecture in Ponce NRHP thematic nomination.
Spanish military headquarters in Ponce built in 1894 in the local Neoclásico Isabelino style. Its garrisoned troops participated in the 1898 Puerto Rico campaign and throughout its history it also served as a courthouse, jailhouse and today it hosts the Ponce School of Fine Arts.
Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers-built military hospital from 1897 designed in the local Neoclásico Isabelino style, it was the last major Spanish building to be constructed in the Americas. Part of the 19th Century Civil Architecture in Ponce NRHP thematic nomination.
Historic 19th-century farm-to-market road constructed to link major coffee-growing areas in nearby Adjuntas with Ponce and its port for the purpose of its trade and export.
The oldest colonial building still standing in the Ponce Historic Zone, the Neoclásico Isabelino-style City Hall from 1846 is a symbol of the city charter granted by Isabella II of Spain and has served as a civic center, jailhouse and reception venue for visiting US presidents and foreign dignitaries.
As the Ponce headquarters of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party during the 1930s, this house bore witness to the massacre of March 21, 1937, in which 19 demonstrators and bystanders and 2 police officers were killed. It is architecturally significant as an outstanding example of vernacular creole design by Blas Silva from the first decade of the 20th century. It became a museum in 1988.[21]
This house was the birthplace and childhood home of great operatictenorAntonio Paoli (1871–1946) until 1883. It was in Ponce's rich cultural environment that Paoli was first exposed to the arts, and this house is the only property remaining in Puerto Rico associated with the island's first performing artist of international renown.[25]
Neoclassical mansion block designed by Juan Bertoli Calderoni and built in 1860, making it one of the oldest brick and mortar residences in Ponce. It was the former residence of coffee plantation owner Carlos Vives.
Second Empire- and Neo-Rococo-style building from 1922, designed by Agustin Camilo Gonzalez. In addition to its role as a casino it was also used as post office, a civic office and an event venue and reception hall by local businesspeople and visiting dignitaries.
Neoclassical cathedral from 1835 designed by Francisco Porrata Doria to replace the former church building that was previously damaged by earthquakes and fires. It is also of cultural importance as it hosts the yearly Las Mañanitas in honor of the city patroness Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Neo-classical municipal cemetery from 1842. Its 1864 enlargement was designed by Nieto Blajol Iglesia and today it serves as a cemetery museum and as the Román Baldorioty de Castro National Pantheon.
Archaeological site also known as the Tibes Site consisting of pre-Hispanic ceremonial ball courts or bateyes, in addition to pre-Taino burial sites dating to at least 700 AD. Part of the Ball court/plaza sites of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands multiple property submission. Today managed by the municipality as the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center.
Designed by Manuel V. Domenech in a Reinaissance-inspired Spanish Revival style, it served as the former municipal civic center of the Ponce Playa district, a settlement that grew in and around the Port of Ponce in the 19th century.
Historic and well-preserved coffee plantation from 1833. Its main plantation house was built in a traditional Spanish Colonial-style while its surrounding buildings and warehouses consist of a Vernacular style. It contains the last remaining example of a Barker hydraulic turbine in the world.
Late Gothic Revival and Mission/Spanish Revival-style church from 1926. The congregation is the first Anglican and oldest Protestant church in Puerto Rico and the only one existing prior to the American invasion in 1898.
Neo-gothic church designed by Antonin Nechodoma and built in 1908 as part of a missional outreach of the American Methodist Church. It is one of the oldest Protestant congregations in Puerto Rico.
Classical Revival school building complex from 1915, designed by Adrian C. Finlayson. At the time it was the largest school in the island and today it stands as a landmark of the history of education in Puerto Rico.
This 1913 school was designed by insular architect Albert B. McCulloch using the Mission Revival and Classical Revival styles. It is architecturally significant as a well-preserved example of the Puerto Rican school buildings of the early 20th century, a period of great transformation in Puerto Rico under the American administration.[30]
Distinctive Ponce Creole-style house from 1911, designed by Blas C. Silva for Dr. Guillermo Salazar Palau and his wife Sara Isabel Rivera Carbonell. Today it hosts the Ponce History Museum.
Built to a Neoclassical design in 1895, this house is one of the fullest expressions of 19th century architecture for Ponce's wealthy creole class. Notable are the trompe-l'œil interior wall paintings of Parisian landmarks and fin de siècle decorative detailing.[36]
Historic district consisting of the Central Aguirre sugar mill and neighboring company town from 1899. Many contributing buildings are a prime example of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements, particular the Traditional industrial style.
Mission/Spanish Colonial-style representing a breakaway in both religious and architectural norms of the time, being the first Protestant church to be built in a main town square (plaza) in Puerto Rico.
A Classical Revival building designed by Miguel Briganti Pinti as both a residence and coffee warehouse for Corsican immigrant Jose Maria Agostini Santini.
This 1916 house is notable for its extensive use of concrete sculptural ornamentation. Juan Bautista and Domingo Filardi integrated the outstanding decorative features with the overall Beaux-Arts plan,[l] and later came to be recognized as experts in cast concrete ornamental elements.[37]
Possibly the first or at least oldest masonic lodge in Puerto Rico, it was designed in the Classical Revival-style by André Troublard and built by Jesus Emmanuelli in 1894.
^The listed portion of the Carretera Central extends into Caguas, Cidra, Cayey, Aibonito, Coamo, and Juana Díaz. The roadway route in San Juan and Ponce, as well as a portion in Caguas, was excluded from the National Register listing.
^The name of Church San Juan Bautista y San Ramón Nonato of Juana Diaz is presented here without the accent on "Díaz" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[14] and announcement of listing.[15] The latter source additionally omits the accent from "Ramón", which was retained here.
^Construction of the Church San Juan Bautista y San Ramón Nonato of Juana Diaz began in 1807. A completion date is not stated in the available sources. Major elements (the north tower) were added possibly as late as 1895.
^Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archaeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner.
^Rafael Carmoega, at the time Chief Architect in the Division of Public Works of the Puerto Rico Department of the Interior, was the architect of record while Gardón Vega, a drafter in the division, was responsible for the school's design.
^Sources authoritative with regard to National Register listing parameters give different forms of the house's name, including Casa Miguel C. Godreau from the house's nomination form[22] and official announcement of entry on the National Register,[23] and Godreau, Miguel C., Casa from the comprehensive National Register database.[24] This article adopts the first of these, Casa Miguel C. Godreau, because it offers the most proper Spanish usage.
^The name of the Castillo de Serralles is presented here without the accent on "Serrallés" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[26] and Federal Register announcement of listing.[27]
^The name of the Cementerio Catolico San Vicente de Paul is presented here without the accent on "Católico" in conformance with the usage in the cemetery's National Register nomination form[28] and announcement of listing.[29]
^The name of the Fernando Luis Toro Casa is presented here using word order (name preceding "Casa") that conforms to the usage in the house's National Register announcement of listing[31] and subsequent database entries.[32][33]
^The name of the Zaldo de Nebot Residencia is presented here using word order (personal name preceding "Residencia") that conforms to the usage in the house's National Register announcement of listing[34] and subsequent database entries.[32][35]
^Juan Bautista and Domingo Filardi's father, Vicente Filardi, was the general contractor with overall responsibility for design and construction for the Filardi House.
^ abcdefghNumbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^ abcdefghThe eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
^EPRL Editorial Group (September 17, 2014). "Ingenio Azucarero Vives, Guayama". Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 26, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
^"Department of the Interior, National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places; Annual Listing of Historic Properties", 47 FR 4932 (February 2, 1982), at 4951.
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