The Miguel Angel Garcia Mendez Post Office Building in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, previously known as the United States Post Office and Courthouse,[2] and also known as Correo Central de Mayagüez is a post office and courthouse facility of the United States, housing operations of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. It was designed by Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as U.S. Post Office and Courthouse.[1] In 2007, the U.S. Congress passed a bill renaming the building for statesman and local government figure Miguel A. García Méndez.[3][4]
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| Location | Candelaria (former McKinley) and Pilar Defillo Streets, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico |
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| Built | 1935 |
| Architect | Office of the Supervising Architect |
| NRHP reference No. | 86001169[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 21, 1986 |
Overview
editIn this same lot stood, since the times of Spanish rule, first the Barracks of the Alfonso XII Regiment until 1898, then the district court and jail until the October 11, 1918 earthquake when the old brick building was destroyed.[5] The barracks were built in 1848; they were large and had two floors. They could house a battalion of 800 men and its officers. The building's brick roof had 30 lightning rods.[6]
Gallery
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Infantry Barracks in 1898 -
Barracks, circa 1906 -
Official designation of the post office with Luis Fortuño and García Méndez family
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ 51 Federal Register 7500 (March 4, 1986); in reporting the nomination of this building for inclusion in the NRHP, the National Park Service identified this structure as the "United States Post Office and Courthouse, McKinley and Piar DeFillo Sts."
- ^ Public Law 110–29 -- An Act to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 60 Calle McKinley, West in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, as the 'Miguel Angel García Méndez Post Office Building'.
- ^ "Link to Bill". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- ^ "Genealogias Biografias e Historia del Mayagüez de Ayer y Hoy y Antologia de Puerto Rico"; by Martin Gaudier (Author); Pages: 54-56; Publisher: Imprenta "El Aguila", San German (1959); Language: Spanish
- ^ "Historia de Mayagüez 1760-1960"; by Subcomite de la Historia de Mayaüez (Author); Page: 71; Publisher: Talleres Graficos Interamericanos (1960); Language: Spanish
External links
edit- Historic Federal Courthouses page from the Federal Judicial Center