Templo del Maestro

Templo del Maestro (Spanish for 'Temple of the Teacher') is a historic Beaux Arts building from 1937 that originally served as the seat of the Puerto Rico Teachers Association (Spanish: Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico).

It was then built by civil engineer Gabriel Martínez Guzmán, and inaugurated in a public ceremony led by Puerto Rico governor Blanton C. Winship in which it was blessed by Edwin Byrne, the then Bishop of San Juan.

[3] The last tenant was the Bureau of Special Investigations of the Puerto Rico Department of Justice which made infrastructural upgrades to the building.

Although there was public interest in revitalizing the building and opening it as the new seat of the Puerto Rican Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación) in 2017,[4][5] as of 2023 it remains abandoned and its interior in a state of decay.

Despite its current state the building retains its architectural integrity, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.