Central High School (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Central High School
Location Ponce de Leon Ave., Santurce, Puerto Rico
Coordinates 18°26′53″N 66°04′11″W / 18.44815°N 66.06977°W / 18.44815; -66.06977Coordinates: 18°26′53″N 66°04′11″W / 18.44815°N 66.06977°W / 18.44815; -66.06977
Area less than one acre
Built 1925
Architect Adrian C. Finlayson
Architectural style Spanish Renaissance
MPS Early Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico TR
NRHP reference # 87001309[1]
Added to NRHP August 4, 1987

The Central High School is a school located in Santurce barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The 1925-built building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

It is a three-story, U-shaped building with Spanish Renaissance architecture.[2]

Its National Register nomination asserts that "Central High School is, for many reasons, the most important school structure built in Puerto Rico in the first decades of the XXth century."[2]:

It was built as part of a building program that also yielded the Ponce High School, built in 1915, and the Gautier Benítez High School in Caguas, built in 1924.

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Central High School / La Central / La Central High". National Park Service. with seven photos from 1986 and an architectural plan drawing


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