National Register of Historic Places listings in western Puerto Rico
Places in western Puerto Rico listed on the US National Register of Historic Places
National Register entries listed below are found in the highlighted 12 municipalities of Puerto Rico.
This is a list of properties and districts in the western municipalities of Puerto Rico that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos). It includes places along the western coast, and on islands, and on the western slope of Puerto Rico's Cordillera Central.
The area covered spans 12 municipalities: Moca, Aguadilla, Aguada, Rincón, Añasco, Mayagüez, Hormigueros, San Germán, Sábana Grande, Guánica, Lajas and Cabo Rojo.
Names of places given are as they appear in the National Register, reflecting name as given in NRHP application at the date of listing. Note, the National Register name system does not accommodate Spanish á, ñ and other letters.
Truss bridge from 1928 located in Central Coloso formerly used for the transportation of sugarcane across the Culebrinas River. Part of the Historic Bridges of Puerto Rico MPS.
Historic church from 1783, with its current façade dating to 1887 and designed by architect Pedro Cobreros. Reportedly the only church in Puerto Rico with an apse covered by a groin vault rather than a dome or a barrel vault.
Ruins of an important Spanish-built lighthouse from 1889, destroyed by the 1918 earthquake, at one point becoming an important navigational landmark on the route between Europe and the Panama Canal.
Public landscaped park designed by Heinrich Hau and built an ancient water spring (ojo de agua) closely tied to the history of Aguadilla, and associated with historical figures such as Francis Drake and Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra.
Built in 1914, this one-story, Neoclassical house is architecturally significant as a typical urban residence for a well-to-do Puerto Rican family in the early 20th century, and as one of the most important remaining works by architect Manuel Gómez Tejera.[7]
Historic school complex built between 1903 and 1909 consisting of two distinct school buildings: Eugenio María de Hostos Graded School and the Sergio Ramírez de Arellano School.
Historic school from 1903 with Neoclassical architecture. It is the oldest school in Cabo Rojo and one of the earliest schools to be built in the island during the 20th century.
This disused and ruinedlighthouse was built by Spanish authorities in 1893 in a style reminiscent of plantation great houses. It marked the entrance to Guánica Bay, the most important harbor on the southern side of the island from early colonial times through the Spanish–American War in 1898.[10]
Formerly known as Hacienda Desideria, former sugarcane plantation consisting of a well-preserved main house or manor and slave quarters. Used by Guy Vernor Henry as military and living quarters during the Puerto Rico campaign in 1898.
Site of the Battle of Yauco in 1898, in the Spanish–American War. See Puerto Rico Campaign. The Battle field was located at the time in Yauco, however the site became part of modern day Guanica after the founding of the municipality.
Historic pilgrimage church closely tied to the history of Hormigueros. Records of the church date to as far as 1590 and radiocarbon dating suggests that a chapel has existed in the site since at least 1570. The site includes a pilgrimage house and rectory.
Historic Classical Revival cemetery from 1876 designed as part of the 1804 Mayagüez urban master plan by Félix Vidal d’Ors. As many historic cemeteries in Puerto Rico it used to be divided into Catholic and non-Catholic sections.
Historic lighthouse designed in 1885 by Spanish engineer Rafael Ravena and built in 1900, and the first of two lighthouses built by the United States government in Puerto Rico. The lighthouse is famous for its intricate designed, formerly attributed to Gustav Eiffel, and is considered one of the most endangered lighthouses in the U.S. It was served by a long narrow-gauge tramway.
The historic district includes a number of Pre-Columbian archaeological sites including the Corral de los Indios and Bajura de los Cerezos bateyes, several sites with prehistoric rock art, and the Mona Island Lighthouse.
Also known as Lería Esmoris Residence, historic house designed by Sabàs Honoré in 1890 and built in 1897 for Santiago Sáenz y Martínez who later passed it to José de Diego.[22]
Main town square or plaza of the city of Mayagüez, built in 1760 following the traditional Spanish urban planning conventions in the island. The current plaza design dates to 1842, a year after the Great Fire of 1841 destroyed much of the city.[26]
Historic building from 1909, although now functioning as a theater, it is the oldest purpose-built movie theater in Puerto Rico. It designed by Sabàs Honoré and built by Francisco Maymón Palmer.[32]
Well-preserved former hacienda from 1884 named after Enriqueta Nicanora, daughter of German-Puerto Rican Gohan Heinrich Wilhem Kleinbring, who immigrated to Puerto Rico to work at Central Coloso. Today a museum.
Renaissance/French Chateau style building from 1893, popularly known as the Labadié Castle or as Palacete Los Moreau, after the famed piece of Puerto Rican literature by Enrique Laguerre. The manor house is the only remaining structure of a former mixed sugarcane and coffee plantation.
Decommissioned boiling-water nuclear reactor built by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, one of the two superheater reactors of its type ever built in the United States.
Historic chapel of the former Santo Domingo de Porta Coeli Dominican Convent from 1609, making it one of the oldest church buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Colonial historic center of the town of San Germán, founded as Nueva Salamanca by Spanish settlers in 1573, making it the second oldest European-established settlement in the island after San Juan. In addition to its contributing properties it contains more than 100 architecturally and historically significant buildings, many of which date to at least 1606.
^Sources authoritative with regard to National Register listing parameters give different forms of the fort's name, including Fuerte de la Concepción from the fort's nomination form,[4]Fuerte de la Concepcion from the official weekly announcement of National Register actions,[5] and Fuerte de la Conception from the comprehensive National Register database.[6] This article adopts the first of these, Fuerte de la Concepción, because it offers the most proper Spanish orthography.
^The name of the Residence Lopez is presented here using word order and without the accent on "López" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[7] and announcement of listing.[8]
^ abThe Puente de Añasco spans the boundary between Añasco (Barrio Añasco Arriba) and Mayagüez (Barrio Sabanetas) municipalities.
^Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner.
^ abThe Silva Bridge spans the boundary between Hormigueros (Barrio Guanajibo) and Cabo Rojo (Barrio Guanajibo) municipalities.
^The name of the Faro de Guanica is presented here without the accent on "Guánica" in conformance with the usage in the light's National Register nomination form[10] and Federal Register announcement of listing.[11]
^The name of the Torrens Bridge is presented here without the accent on "Torréns" in conformance with the usage in the bridge's National Register nomination form[12] and announcement of listing.[13]
^The name of the Casa Consistorial De Mayaguez is presented here with a capital D and without the diaresis on "Mayagüez" in conformance with the usage in the building's National Register nomination form[14] and announcement of listing.[15]
^The name of the Edificio Jose de Diego is presented here without the accent on "José" in conformance with the usage in the building's National Register nomination form[17] and Federal Register announcement of listing.[11]
^The name of the Gomez Residencia is presented here using word order that conforms to the usage in the house's National Register announcement of listing[18] and subsequent database entries.[19][20] The accent is omitted from "Gómez" in conformance with both of those sources as well as the house's National Register nomination form.[21]
^The name of La Casa Solariega de Jose De Diego is presented here with a capital D in the second "de" and without the accent on "José" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[22] and announcement of listing.[23]
^The name of the Nazario Rivera Residencia is presented here using word order (name preceding "Residencia") that conforms to the usage in the house's National Register announcement of listing[24] and subsequent database entries.[19][25]
^The name of the Plaza Publica is presented here without the accent on "Pública" in conformance with the usage in the plaza's National Register nomination form[26] and announcement of listing.[15]
^The name of the Ramírez Fuentes Residencia is presented here using word order (name preceding "Residencia") that conforms to the usage in the house's National Register announcement of listing[27] and subsequent database entries.[19][28] Also note that while the announcement and databases treat Ramirez as a forename and Fuentes as a surname and omit the accent from Ramírez, the house's National Register nomination form treats Ramírez Fuentes, including the accent, as a compound surname (section 9 mentions "Mrs. Mirta Ramírez de Fuentes");[29] for these purposes, this article adopts the nomination's usage.
^The name of the Residencia Ramirez De Arellano en Guanajibo is presented here with a capital D and without the accent on "Ramírez" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[30] and announcement of listing.[31]
^The name of the Teatro Yaguez is presented here without the diaresis on "Yagüez" in conformance with the usage in the theater's National Register nomination form[32] and announcement of listing.[15]
^The name of the Berta Sepulveda House is presented here without the accent on "Sepúlveda" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[33] and announcement of listing.[34]
^The name of the Jaime Acosta y Fores Residence is presented here without the accent on "Forés" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[35] and announcement of listing.[36]
^The Alcantarilla Pluvial sobre la Quebrada Manzanares is a linear resource; the coordinates given represent the approximate midpoint of the line.
^The name of the Casa de los Ponce de Leon is presented here without the accent on "León" in conformance with the usage in the house's National Register nomination form[37] and announcement of listing.[38]
^The name of Hacienda Buena Union is presented here without the accent on "Unión" in conformance with the usage in the hacienda's National Register nomination form[39] and announcement of listing.[40]
^A minor portion of the San Germán Historic District extends into Barrio Sabana Grande Abajo.
^ ab"Department of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service: National Register of Historic Places; Annual Listing of Historic Properties", 44 FR 7416 (February 6, 1979), at p. 7581.
^Puerto Rico SP Esmoris, Duran, Residencia. File Unit: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Puerto Rico, 1/1/1964 - 12/31/2013. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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