High School Building, at Ponce, P. R.

High School Building, at Ponce, P. R.

High schools (buildings)
High school (building)
High schools (institutions)
High school (institution)
Schools (buildings)
School (building)

The school system of Puerto Rico, both public and private, is well organized and this view of the Ponce High School shows one of the many modern school buildings.

Ponce High School is one of the five best school buildings built in Puerto Rico at the beginning of the XXth century; and outside San Juan, the capital, certainly the most impressive, Between 1900 and 1925 over 3,000 schools were erected on the Island; only four included fully equipped auditoriums (not just assembly rooms) in their desigjn: San Juan's Central High, Luis Munoz Rivera School in Salinas, Arecibo's own Luis Muñoz Rivera School and Ponce High School. In that sense, these are the most representative examples of school building ideas being developed at the time in the United States by architects of renown, such as Haussander and Perkins of Chicago, Snyder of New York, Cooper of Boston and, especially, William B. Itnner, of St. Louis. --Description from United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National, Register of Historic Places, Ponce High School.

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University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras Campus). School of Architecture Library.

2022-02-28

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