Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 06000506 Architectural style Modern architecture Added to NRHP 14 June 2006 | Built 1955 Opened 1956 Architecture firm Toro-Ferrer | |
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Location Luis Muñoz Rivera Park
San Juan, Puerto Rico Similar Fortín de San Gerónimo, Old San Juan, Sagrado Corazon, Castillo de San Cristóbal, Castillo San Felipe del Morro | ||
The Supreme Court Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico is an architecturally significant Modern-style building and the seat of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. It was built in 1955 and listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
It is a concrete building designed by Puerto Rican firm Toro-Ferrer with design consultation by Charles H. Warner, Jr. and Harold Eliot Leeds. The building projects over a reflecting pool, helping it to blend with the park surroundings in Luis Munoz Rivera Park.
The court building was opened in 1956 with U.S. Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren as the main speaker. The building has been described as "extroverted...light and airy". Its circular courtroom was unusual.
The Supreme Court in Puerto Rico is the highest court in the commonwealth, and is the successor to court first established by the Spanish in 1832.