Condado Beach

Playita del Condado is a beach located at the end of Ashford Avenue in Condado, Puerto Rico.

The Condado Vanderbilt Hotel is a historic luxury hotel built in 1919 and located on Ashford Avenue in the district of Condado in San Juan, capital city of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The hotel was designed by the architectural firm Warren and Wetmore, who also designed New York's Grand Central Terminal. It was built by the Vanderbilt family and it marked the beginning of high end tourism in Puerto Rico.

Condado Lagoon (Spanish: Laguna del Condado) is located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is an effluent body of water that flows freely between the Condado and Miramar neighborhoods of Santurce, a barrio of San Juan.

The Miami Building (Spanish: El Edificio Miami), also known as the Miami Apartments or the 868 Ashford Building, is a historic Art Deco building located in the Avenida Ashford of the Condado section of Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.The Miami was the first private apartment building to be built in the tourist section of El Condado, and possibly the first purpose-built apartment building to be erected in the island. The 6-floor building is located at 868 Avenida Ashfordin a small peninsula that is bound by Condado Beach and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Condado Lagoon to the south. At the time it was the second tallest building in the area after the historic Vanderbilt Hotel. The building was designed by Syracuse University graduate architect Pedro Méndez and built by contractor firm Beltrán, Miró and Benítez at the cost of $90,000 ($1,979,294.24 in 2023). It was first owned by a Venezuelan-Puerto Rican with the name of Mr. Tirado. The building design decisively set the trends of Art Deco style in Puerto Rican architecture of the mid 20th-century along with the Aboy Building, and it is considered the finest example of Art Deco architecture in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. It contains 24 apartment units, all of which consisting of a foyer, dining and living rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, two bedrooms and a curved foyer balcony. The building façade is famous for its traditional Art Deco designs, particularly the main structure of the entrance with its glass doors, glass brick windows, and the name MIAMI written in the Art Deco variation of the Metro typeface.

La Ventana al Mar on Ashford Avenue in the district of Condado, of San Juan, Puerto Rico is a large public space built in 2004 fronting the Atlantic Ocean. The park is flanked by two of Condado's landmark hotels: to the west by the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel (1919), designed by Warren and Whitmore, and to the east by the La Concha Hotel (1957), designed by Toro Ferrer. The 1.8 hectare public space was developed by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico's Tourism Company, and has been credited as one of the principal motors steering the district's urban revitalisation.Designed by Puerto Rican architect and urbanist Andrés Mignucci, La Ventana al Mar has won numerous awards for design excellence including awards in the American Institute of Architects Puerto Rico Chapter Design Awards, the Puerto Rico Architecture Biennale, the Miami + Beach Architecture Biennale (Bronze Medal) and the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennale. In 2016, La Ventana al Mar was exhibited at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin as part of the Demo:polis–the Right to Public Space exhibit.The project includes a large ornamental fountain designed in collaboration with Wet Design of Los Angeles and two public space sculptures by artist Ángel Botello. The park has been the site for music festivals like "La Ventana al Jazz" and weekend markets and fairs. The public space occupies the site of the old Condado Convention Center built in the 1970s and became one of the components of the controversial Condado Trio project. El Condado was built over decades with private hotels, apartments and high rise condominiums so that access to the beach and view of the ocean was only possible under difficult circumstances. In the late 1990s the three choice properties on Ashford Avenue - the Convention Center and the Vanderbilt and La Concha Hotels were closed and in state of disrepair. The Government of Puerto Rico proposed remodelling the Vanderbilt Hotel and demolishing the Condado Convention Center and La Concha. The Government awarded the project's development to a US-based hotel consortium which proposed to build an all-inclusive hotel and condominium resort at this location. The case became a political issue and was the subject of protests and challenges by the local community, the College of Architects and the Municipality of San Juan. Finally a counter-project proposed by the Municipality of San Juan based on the revitalisation of the two landmark hotels and the creation of a central public space, La Ventana al Mar, was approved and constructed.

La Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort, also known as La Concha Resort, is a historic luxury resort located at the Condado oceanfront within the district of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Edificio Aboy (also El Faro) is a private three-level residence located in San Juan, on the island of Puerto Rico. It is located in Miramar, an area of Santurce, which is a barrio of San Juan. Made of concrete with metal and wood details, the residence features large bay windows on all floors, and circular balconies that curve around a corner of the building. The Edificio Aboy is one of the best representations of Art Deco style on the island of Puerto Rico.

Villa Victoria is a historic house located in the Santurce area of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Formerly a private single-family residence, Villa Victoria has served as a local chapter and the San Juan headquarters of the YWCA since 1955, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.Built in a French Colonial-style popular at the time, Villa Victoria dates to the early 20th-century. No record of the architect or builder exists, but records from 1917 show that it was built at a time of urban residential expansion in the Miramar area of Santurce which was the result of a population boom and the establishment of the Carretera Central that linked San Juan to Ponce. Although built after the American occupation of Puerto Rico, its building methods evoke the traditional techniques of residential building construction from the Spanish colonial period during the 19th century. This type of residential construction was very typical in Miramar during the period between 1900 and 1920. Its first documented owners were Thomas George Waymouth and his wife, of the Waymouth Estate Company, followed by Ramón Mora and wife Teresa Nicolao. Records show that in 1940 it was bought by Jenaro Suárez and wife Ethel Natalie Wigmore, under whom Villa Victoria underwent numerous renovations with the addition of plumbing and electrical infrastructure. It was then purchased by Irma Cuevas de Kearney and Marianne Goettsch in 1955 on behalf of the YWCA, when the internal partitions of the first floor were demolished. Today it remains as the Puerto Rico headquarters of said organization and it also hosts a local chapter.

The Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (Spanish: Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico) is a public conservatory in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It has hosted a number of international musicians as students as well as faculty, and has a longstanding relationship with the classical music movement in Puerto Rico, including the annual Casals Festival and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO).

The Residencia Aboy-Lompré, also known as Casa Aboy, is a historic house built in San Juan, Puerto Rico around 1910 and 1912 for the Aboy-Ferrer Family. The house is notable for its use of modern architecture at the time and is now a photojournalism museum.

El Boquerón is a body of water located at the intersection of the Condado Lagoon and the San Antonio Channel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This body of water separates the Islet of San Juan, where Old San Juan and Puerta de Tierra are located, from El Condado and the Isla Grande peninsula in Santurce. It is separated from the San Antonio Channel by the San Antonio Bridge and from the Condado Lagoon by the Dos Hermanos Bridge. This body of water contains coral reef and habitats important to plant and animal life; it is part of the bigger San Juan Bay National Estuary. These bodies of water are often visited by manatees. The Playita del Condado (Spanish for "Condado's little beach") is located at the eastern end of El Boquerón. As the natural border between the original settlement of San Juan and the mainland of Puerto Rico, El Boquerón was a critical strategic point throughout the history of the city. Numerous bridges crossed it throughout the history, most of which would be burned down during British and Dutch invasions. The Fortín de San Gerónimo del Boquerón, also known as San Jerónimo Fortress, was built during the 18th century to replace an older fortress then known as Fort Boquerón Battery, which was used in 1595 and 1598 by the Spanish to defend San Juan from attacks by Sir Francis Drake and George Clifford, the 3rd Earl of Cumberland, respectively. Other forts that no longer exist on this body of water include Fort San Antonio (today occupied by San Antonio Bridge) and Fort Escambrón (today the area of the Caribe Hilton Hotel and the Escambrón Cove).El Boquerón used to be the site of a natural landmark known locally as Perro de Piedra (Stone Dog) or Piedra del Perro (Dog Rock), a reef formation resembling the shape of a sitting dog when seen from Dos Hermanos Bridge. Numerous legends were attributed to the rock formation. The rock used to be so well known that it (and its surrounding coral reef) was declared a cultural and natural landmark in the year 2000. The Piedra del Perro formation stood until 2016 when it was completely destroyed by strong waves.

Edificio Victory Garden is a four-story apartment house that faces on Ponce de Leon Avenue and Elisa Colberg Street in the Miramar district of Santurce, Puerto Rico. It was deemed notable as "one of Puerto Rico's finest examples of Spanish Revival apartment houses from the early 20th century."The building was designed by Pedro Adolfo de Castro y Besosa (January 5, 1895-October, 1936), the first United States university-trained Puerto Rican architect.: 16  He designed 33 or more apartment houses during 1929–1936. Rafael Carmoega emerged to higher prominence only after de Castro's early death, at age 41.: 17 Although it appears massive, the building's footprint only uses up 30 percent of the lot's area. It is U-shaped with a courtyard not visible from the corner of the streets.