- City:
- San Juan, PUERTO-RICO
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), Territories & Reservations
Description
Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration work relief division efforts included “the remodeling of the old ‘Manicomio'” in San Juan, in 1937, “to render it available for the motorized transport of the Sixty-Fifth United States Infantry.”
The facility now houses Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico (the School of Plastic Arts of Puerto Rico).
Source notes
"Annual Report of the Department of the Interior"; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 (pg. 339) https://books.google.com/books?id=s8MgAQAAIAAJSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 19, 2017.
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