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Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School

1908 establishments in Puerto RicoElementary schools in Puerto RicoNRHP infobox with nocatNational Register of Historic Places in Guayama, Puerto RicoNeoclassical architecture in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Registered Historic Place stubsSchool buildings completed in 1908School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico
Escuela Eleuterio Derkes 1 Guayama Puerto Rico
Escuela Eleuterio Derkes 1 Guayama Puerto Rico

The Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School (Spanish: Escuela Derkes) is a historic school building in Guayama, Puerto Rico. It was built in 1908, during a period when schools were gaining importance as civic institutions in Puerto Rico. Its simplified Neoclassical design emphasized this shift, and it became a prototype for a generation of school construction on the island. It additionally signifies a transition in construction technologies from wood to concrete. In 1987, architect Jorge Rigau observed that the building had survived in a nearly unaltered state, a rarity among schools of its era.It was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

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Eleuterio Derkes Grammar School
Calle José M. Angeli,

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Calle José M. Angeli 54
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Escuela Eleuterio Derkes 1 Guayama Puerto Rico
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