Built in the 1840s, this Neoclassical house was the residence of internationally recognized Puerto Rican scientist Agustín Stahl (1842–1917)[a] from 1865 until his death.

[b] The house has been acquired and partially restored by the municipal government of Bayamón, which has long-term plans to establish a museum in the building.

[1] Trained as a physician in Germany and maintaining only a modest income as a local doctor, Stahl nevertheless received honors in anthropology, natural sciences, and medicine by 1877.

In the 1880s, he published massive and well regarded reference texts on the zoology and botany of the island, and later important works in ethnology and demography.

His liberal political views led to suspicion from Spanish colonial authorities and his arrest and brief exile to the Dominican Republic during the Spanish–American War.