Main Entrance to the Building Old Arsenal of the Spanish Navy in the Old San Juan

Description

Facade of the building known as the Old Arsenal of the Spanish Navy in the neighborhood La Puntilla of the Old San Juan. The entrance of the building has the shape of arch and shows elements with influence of the architectonic style Neoclassic. It has four columns with Toscan Order, at the top of the entablature there is a coats of arms, it has a frieze with metopes that shows symbols of the zodiac signs and a sunrise transom made with steel with spirals with S shape. The building is built in masonry, it has a sign of identification that says: "Entrance Entrada" and a steel gate. Also, you can see moldings, cornices, denticles, brackets, balustrades and a window with a steel grill. In front of the building there is a small wall delimiting, a fire hydrant, a sidewalk and the street. Nearby there are trees, bushes and palm trees.

Origin Name	FGj.1000.D0086
Relation	Archivo de Arquitectura y Construcción de la Universidad de Puerto Rico > Colección Frederick Gjessing > FGj Photographic Survey of San Juan Antiguo > FGj 1000 D0033 - 0113 Puntilla
Geographical Coverage	San Juan
Date	[1953]
Descriptive Notes	Title assigned by the cataloging team. The general description contains information provided by the Archive of Architecture and Construction of the University of Puerto Rico (AACUPR) and the book “Photographic Survey of San Juan Antiguo” by the architect Frederick C. Gjessing and the submitted nomination forms to the Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos por la Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica (OECH).
Descripción decolonial	The old arsenal in Old San Juan was built in masonry around 1800, as the Spanish colonial government required a strategic location with access to the sea to protect its weapons. The arsenal was the last space the Spanish government occupied until its withdrawal from Puerto Rico on October 18, 1898 due to the Spanish-Philippine-American-Cuban War. In the late 1960s, the United States authorized the Puerto Rican government to use this building as a government agency, which later became the offices of the Department of Labor and warehouses and an exhibition hall for the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture. As part of Operation Serenity under the administration of Luis Muñoz Marín, these spaces that represented colonial violence against Puerto Rico were revitalized into protected historical heritage.
Colaborador	de Zayas y Algarrán, Manuel (1819 - 1854/55) - Arquitecto
Historical Background	Architecture in Puerto Rico: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries Old San Juan and it's Periphery: Old San Juan
Architectural Subject	Capital cities Old towns Buildings Entrances Triumphal arches (memorial arches) Coats of arms Friezes (entablature components) Columns (architectural elements) Tuscan order Sunrise transom (door or window component) Fanlights Ironwork (visual works) Pilasters (wall components) S-scrolls Fire hydrants Grilles (barrier elements) Neoclassical Arsenals (buildings) Masonry units Streets Sidewalks Barrels (containers) Identification signs Boundary walls Trees (woody plants) Shrubs Palm trees Corbels Bas-relief Abandoned buildings Metopes Entablatures
Decolonial Subject	Environmental Contamination Military Control Environmetal Degradation Tourist Economy Eurocentrism
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Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image