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Bolívar (Santurce)

Municipality of San JuanPuerto Rico Senatorial district I geography stubsSanturce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Hotel Bolivar in Bolivar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Hotel Bolivar in Bolivar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bolívar is one of the forty subbarrios of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Bolívar (Santurce)
Calle Sánchez, San Juan Santurce (Santurce)

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N 18.4425 ° E -66.069722222222 °
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Calle Sánchez 1510
00909 San Juan, Santurce (Santurce)
Puerto Rico, United States
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Hotel Bolivar in Bolivar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Gran Logia Espiritual Número 1
Gran Logia Espiritual Número 1

Grand Spiritual Lodge No. 1 (Spanish: Gran Logia Espiritual Número 1), also known as Casa de las Almas ('house of the souls'), is a historic building and Spiritualist meeting hall located in Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was designed by Luis F. Delgado and Juan Rivera Paris using a simple but elegant Neoclassical style. The structure was built by members of the lodge in 1928 with the intended purpose of serving as a Spiritualist meeting hall for a local Spiritualist lodge (centro espiritista) founded in 1910. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 for its historic and architectural significance.Casa de las Almas was the main Spiritualist center in Puerto Rico that belonged to the philosophical and spiritual doctrine founded by Allan Kardec. Previous Spiritualist centers existed in the island since the 1870s, such as in the western city of Mayagüez. These centers would usually be closed down by the deeply-Catholic Spanish colonial government. The political changes that were brought by the United States and the separation between state and church in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War allowed for many of these previously outlawed movements to freely flourish beginning in 1903. By 1920 there were at least 150 Spiritualist centers in the island, and it was under this environment that the community of Casa de las Almas was established by Balbino Vázquez and his wife María Cruz Carpintero. This center mostly attracted members of the working-class community and women who were previously unable to have an active participation in the Catholic church or in the traditional social and spiritual organizations of the time. Some notable individuals who were members of this community included Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, Vicente Geigel Polanco and Roberto H. Todd. The institution was later incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1930, and today it is possibly the largest and most renown organization of its type in Puerto Rico.

Instituto Loaiza Cordero para Niños Ciegos Historic District

The Instituto Loaiza Cordero para Niños Ciegos (lit., "Loaiza Cordero Institute for Blind Children"), also known as the Instituto Puertorriqueño para Niños Ciegos (lit., "Puerto Rican Institute for Blind Children"), is a former hospital and school complex for blind children and now a historic district located in the Santurce area of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The historic district is located in a large urban block in the Figueroa subbarrio of Santurce, bound by the Avenida Manuel Fernández Juncos to the northeast, Avenida Hipódromo to the southeast, Las Palmas Street to the southwest and Figueroa Street to the northwest. The historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 due to its historical and architectural significance.It was designed by architect Joseph O'Reilly who worked closely with Loaiza Cordero herself. The namesake of the institute is Loaiza Cordero del Rosario, a partially blind educator, public servant and poet who was highly involved in the development, construction and management of the site. Native to Yauco, she was part of the first graduate class (1907) of the Normal Industrial School (Escuela Normal Industrial), one of the institutions that would later become the University of Puerto Rico. Loaiza Cordero became a schoolteacher afterwards, an endeavor that was cut short after finding herself partially blind. She was forced to resign from her position but later enrolled at a two-year program at the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. This experienced motivated her to resume her education career and to bring education services to children in Puerto Rico. She soon lobbied in the Puerto Rican government for the creation of infrastructure for blind individuals in the island which resulted in the creation of several blind schools throughout the island and the then-called Puerto Rican Institute for Blind Children. The development of the institution was the first of its kind in Puerto Rico and one of the earliest of its kind in the United States that would bring pedagogical, architectural and urban planning ideas together. The complex was design to provide safety, comfort and mobility to blind children, evident in the use of Braille in both Spanish and English throughout the whole site. In addition to Joseph O'Reilly, engineers Manuel L. Miró and Demetrio del Valle were also involved in the construction of the complex according to a dedicative plaque located at the site today.The Loaiza Cordero Institute historic district designations consists of two contributing buildings (the former hospital and schoolhouse for blind children), a former park and playground also designed for blind children, an allée-like road that transverses the institutes and an ornamental fountain.