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Ponce City Hall - 2013 00001

Front view of the City Hall from the city of Ponce. The building has two floors made of masonry and characteristics of the Elizabethan Neoclassic style. On the first floor there are bossage, double wooden windows and a double door made of wood and glass framed and crowned with an entablature. In the middle there is the main entrance with ornamental metallic grille under a semicircular arch framed with moldings and flanked with two pairs of Tuscan pilasters. Aside from that, on the second floor there are several double doors made of wood and glass framed with flat moldings and presided by balustrades. The middle door is presided by an overhang balcony with a balustrade supported with brackets. The front facade also has an inscription that says: "Casa Alcaldía", a continuous entablature and a pediment that crowns the building. The pediment is small and has a clock, pilasters, spirals, moldings and continuous cornices. Apart from that, on the other side of the street you can distinguish an end of the Public Square Federico Degetau. It has concrete benches and light poles. The Ponce City Hall was built between 1846 and 1848, it became the first government building in the city. Even though the interior design was altered in the XX century, it preserves its original exterior design.

Fachada norte del Capitolio, vista aérea

Aerial view of the north façade of the Capitol building, in San Juan. Some design elements are observable, such as columns, a staircase, balustrades and the dome. To the sides of the building, there are two annexed buildings in which you can observe the sunshade façades. Also, you can see several structures and buildings around the Capitol building, the San Juan bay and the Atlantic Ocean.