- 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 “reconstruction of the ancient Santo Domingo barracks, one of the island’s historic edifices dating from the early sixteenth century” in San Juan, in 1937.
Also known as Convent of the Dominicans, located with the Galería Nacional / del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
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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