Jose Maria Angueli St., Guayama, Puerto Rico. County/parish: Guayama.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 04, 1987. NRIS 87001312.
Part of Early Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico TR (NRIS 64000740).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131518221