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Historic building in Guayama, Puerto Rico

United States historic place
Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Photograph of the Derkes School, a disused, single-story, pink structure with a classical entryThe school in 2017
Locator mapLocator map
LocationJosé María Anguelí Street
Guayama, Puerto Rico
Coordinates17°58′55″N 66°06′42″W / 17.981908°N 66.111799°W / 17.981908; -66.111799
Built1908
Built byAntonio Higuera
Architectural styleNeoclassical
MPSEarly Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico TR
NRHP reference No.87001312
Added to NRHPAugust 4, 1987

The Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School (Spanish: Escuela Derkes) is a historic school building in Guayama, Puerto Rico. It was built in 1908, 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. It additionally signifies a transition in construction technologies from wood to concrete. In 1987, architect Jorge Rigau observed that the building had survived in a nearly unaltered state, a rarity among schools of its era.

It was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

See also

References

  1. ^ Rigau, Jorge (March 16, 1987), National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School (PDF), archived from the original on October 22, 2019, retrieved October 21, 2019.
  2. ^ National Park Service (August 14, 1987), Weekly announcement of National Register of Historic Places actions (PDF), p. 91, archived (PDF) from the original on October 10, 2017, retrieved October 21, 2019.

External links

Portals:
National Register of Historic Places in Guayama, Puerto Rico
Historic properties Guayama map
Footnotes‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent municipality.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Guayama, Puerto Rico and List of National Historic Landmarks in Puerto Rico


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