Avenida Ponce de Leon 1, San Juan, Puerto Rico. County/parish: San Juan.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 22, 1977. NRIS 77001554.
1 contributing building.
The Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico, located at Avenida Ponce de León 1 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a Beaux Arts architecture style building dating from 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000. The Casino was intended to serve as the cultural center of the local higher classes, within which the European influence was more predominant. It was completed in 1917.
During the mid-20th Century, the government used the vacant building to host the Escuela Libre de Música Ernesto Ramos Antonini. By 1955, the school was relocated and the building became the first headquarters of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, serving in that function until 1970.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131518645