Old Asilo de Beneficencia, Rear View

Description

Rear view of the old Asilo de Beneficencia, Old San Juan, before the restoration works began in 1937. The rear façade of the building has two levels of rectangular windows, with individual cornices on the windows of the second level. Half of the facade has façade between the windows, and in the corner, there is a buttress; behind the buttress, a staircase between the side wall and an annex is visible. On the roof, there is a wooden structure. A gas pump is observed in the building's courtyard. This building was transferred to the federal government in 1937 for military use.

Origin Name	Box 448, Folder 9, Photo 437
Relation	San Juan National Historic Site (NPS) > San Juan NHS Resource Records Collection > Series VIII Visual Materiales 1788-2017, Subseries B Photographs 1890 - 2011 > Box 448 - Folder 9 - Beneficencia - 1937-1952
Geographical Coverage	San Juan
Date	1937/1952
Descriptive Notes	Title assigned by the cataloging team. The general description, date, or geographical coverage has information furnished by the San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico.
Colaborador	García, Pedro - Arquitecto Rubio, Luis G. - Maestro de obra Cortijo, Santiago - Maestro de obra De la Pezuela, José - Maestro de obra
Historical Background	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries Old San Juan and it's Periphery: Old San Juan Public Health Projects in Puerto Rico: Hospitals System - Nineteenth Century
Architectural Subject	Old towns Historic buildings Asylums (wellfare buildings) Repairing Flat arches Cornices Pilaster strips Buttresses Stairs (series of steps) Louver windows Oculi (openings) Plank construction
Decolonial Subject	Environmental Contamination
Rights	English Rights. (hyperlink)
Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image