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  • Collection: Postales de Puerto Rico: Colección Osvaldo García

"Carrillon Tower" at University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

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This strikingly beautiful tower of the Administration Building of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras has a modern carillon of 25 chimes costing $20,000 - which were purchased with donations made by students, friends and graduates of the…

[ University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras ]

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"The university’s origins date to 1899 when the Island Board of Public Education offered $15,000 a year to any town that would invest a matching amount in creating a normal school. Fajardo accepted the proposal and the Normal Industrial School was…