Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School

Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The school in 2017
Location	José María Anguelí Street Guayama, Puerto Rico
Coordinates	17°58′55″N 66°06′42″W
Built	1908
Built by	Antonio Higuera[1]
Architectural style	Neoclassical
MPS	Early Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico TR[2]
NRHP reference No.	87001312
Added to NRHP	August 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.[1]

It was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[2]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Puerto Rico

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

• Media related to Escuela Eleuterio Derkes at Wikimedia Commons
• National Register of Historic Places photographic file
• Early Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico TR, National Register of Historic Places cover documentation