Brambaugh School ( Spanish: ''Escuela Brambaugh''), officially the Dr. Martin Grove Brumbaugh School but better known today as Puerta de Tierra Public School (''Escuela Pública de Puerta de Tierra''), is an early 20th-century historic school building located in the

Puerta de Tierra Puerta de Tierra is a ''subbarrio'' (subdistrict) occupying the eastern portion of the Islet of San Juan and the ''barrio'' of San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The name Puerta de Tierra (Spanish for ''land gate'') d ...

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

in the city of

San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jur ...

. The school was built in 1913 by Frank B. Hatch based on designs by architect G.R. Gilmour and named after the first Education Commissioner of Puerto Rico

Martin Grove Brumbaugh Martin Grove Brumbaugh (April 14, 1862March 14, 1930) was an American Republican politician who served as the 26th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1915 until 1919. He is frequently referred to as M.G. Brumbaugh, as is common in the Brumbaugh fam ...

. It was the first modern school to be built in the Puerta de Tierra area of San Juan Antiguo and, until the construction of the neighboring

José Celso Barbosa Graded School The José Celso Barbosa Graded School ( Spanish: ''Escuela Graduada José Celso Barbosa'') is a historic school building located in the Puerta de Tierra historic district in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The school is named after Puerto Rico ...

, it was the only school in the area. Brambaugh School continues to be an important public education center for the local community today. The building today hosts an

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which was included in the list of education institutions for closure by former Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department Education Julia Keleher in 2017. The school remains open but was sold by the Puerto Rican government to the private corporation ''Mr Bull, LLC'' in 2019.

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Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico National Register of Historic Places in San Juan, Puerto Rico School buildings completed in 1913 School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico 1913 establishments in Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-NRHP-stub

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