Calle Union, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. County/parish: Fajardo.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 10, 1988. NRIS 88000077.
Part of United States Custom Houses in Puerto Rico MPS (NRIS 64500546).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The U.S. Customs House, (Spanish: Aduana de Fajardo), located at Calle Union, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, was constructed in 1930. The poured-concrete building is significant architecturally and historically for the role it played in the first, transitional phase of the American customs service in Puerto Rico, from 1898 through 1931. This period is bracketed on one end by the cession, on December 10, 1898, of the island of Puerto Rico to the United States by Spain as a condition of the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish–American War, and on the other by the completion in 1931 of the major building and rehabilitation program undertaken by the U.S. Customs Service following World War I.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131518208