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Tortugo, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Puente de los Frailes, Spanning Frailes Creek, PR Route 873, KM 18.85, Tortugo (San Juan County, Puerto Rico)
Puente de los Frailes, Spanning Frailes Creek, PR Route 873, KM 18.85, Tortugo (San Juan County, Puerto Rico)

Tortugo (Spanish for turtle) is one of the 18 barrios in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the third smallest barrio of San Juan in land area and had a population of 4,543 inhabitants in 2010.

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Tortugo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Puente de los Frailes, Spanning Frailes Creek, PR Route 873, KM 18.85, Tortugo (San Juan County, Puerto Rico)
Puente de los Frailes, Spanning Frailes Creek, PR Route 873, KM 18.85, Tortugo (San Juan County, Puerto Rico)
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General Norzagaray Bridge
General Norzagaray Bridge

The General Norzagaray Bridge is a brick and masonry barrel vault bridge built in 1855 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also known as Puente de los Frailes, it brings what is now Puerto Rico Highway 873 across Frailes Creek, a tributary to the Guaynabo River. It has eight 9.8-metre (32 ft) barrel vault spans. Its total length is 120.7 metres (396 ft) and its roadway width is 7.00 metres (22.97 ft). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1995.In 1855, it was important for carrying the Carretara Central across Quebrada Frailes.It is named for Fernándo de Norzagaray y Escudero, governor of Puerto Rico from 1852 to 1855.It was designed by chief engineer Manuel Sanchez-Nunez y Layne and built by engineer Gustavo Steinacher (who also designed and built the first suspension bridge in the Caribbean, over the Cagüitas River just north of Caguas, Puerto Rico) and cost 45,346 pesos.According to its NRHP registration, it "is one of the most impressive bridges from the Spanish Colonial period", serving as a "prime example of Spanish 19th century masonry arch technology". It is the only such example in the United States.The superstructure of the bridge was modified in 1927 by removal of earth fill and addition of steel girders installed on the arch piers to support a concrete deck. This does not interfere significantly with the historic integrity of the bridge.It spans between what are now the barrios of Caimito and Tortugo in San Juan.

Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono
Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono

The Telephone and Telegraph Station of Guaynabo (Spanish: Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono de Guaynabo) is a one-story flat roof building located in the downtown (pueblo) area of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. It was designed in the Art Deco style and constructed entirely of reinforced concrete with glass blocks and ornamental ironwork. It is one of the few (private or public) buildings in the island built entirely in this architectural style. It was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 2012.The Telegraph and Telephone Station of Guaynabo was constructed in 1948, and since then it has become a significant piece in the history of telecommunications in Guaynabo. It was one of three identical Art Deco buildings of a prototype that combine both the telegraph and telephone services under one roof. This solid, modern and permanent building prototype was designed by the Department of the Interior of Puerto Rico for the installation of the automatic telephone and established in the towns of Juncos, Aibonito and Guaynabo. These buildings gave a new recognizable physical form to both the telephone company and the telegraph station in the island. Constructed between 1943 and 1949, they were also the entities that connected the people of Puerto Rico with the rest of the world. This is one of the two that still remain of those built by the Communications Authority of Puerto Rico’s office facilities, and the only one still existing of the three that was constructed of the Art Deco prototype.The building today houses the Telegraph Museum, which is administered by the municipal government of Guaynabo. The Telegraph Museum aims to preserve the history of this invention and the history of communications in Puerto Rico.