Hogar Nuestra Señora de la Providencia — Puerto Rico Historic Buildings Drawings Society

Hogar Nuestra Señora de la Providencia

Hogar Nuestra Señora de la Providencia
(Home of Our Lady of Providencia)

Designed by: José Lázaro Costa (1913)

The elderly homeless nursing home had its beginnings at the end of the 19th century when the mother superior of the Congregation of the little sisters of the homeless elderly submits a request to the Spanish Government so that they give you some land for the construction of a hospital and nursing home. In 1893, and in the same location which has today in Puerta de Tierra, begins the construction of the first hostel. On the same ground, in 1911, begins the construction of the current building in three stages. In 1971 the lodge changed its name from “Asilo” to “Hogar Nuestra Señora de la Providencia” (Home of Our Lady of Providencia). In 1991, he completed the construction of the annex building which provided fitted to more elderly and nursing home. The new facilities were blessed by His Excellency Luis Cardenal Aponte Martinez on June 16 of that year and activity coincided with the celebration of the centenary of the arrival of the “Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados” (sisters of the homeless elderly people) on the island.

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