Central High School (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
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Central High School, also known as La Central or La Central High, is a school located in Santurce barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Central High School | |
Location | Ponce de Leon Ave., Santurce, Puerto Rico |
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Coordinates | 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 No. | 87001309[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 4, 1987 |
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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.