Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan County, PR

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51 drawings
167 b&w photos
2 data pages
12 photo caption pages
6 color transparencies

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TITLE:
Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan, San Juan County, PR

CALL NUMBER:
HABS PR,7-SAJU,6-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 51 (18 x 24 in. and 24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 167
Data Page(s): 1 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 12
Color Transparencies: 6

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS PR-48

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-18; N110).

Building/structure dates: 1539 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1591 subsequent work

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States.

SUBJECTS:
PUERTO RICO--San Juan County--San Juan
bastions
buttresses
cannons

OTHER TITLE:
El Morro
San Juan National Historic Site

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pr0076

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
9. Landside viewed from the southeast with moat, sally port and bridge
10. Sally port viewed from east
11. South side viewed from the east, ramp to San Fernando Bastion in center background, sentry box of Austria Bastion to right
12. Sentry box of Austria Bastion viewed from the east
13. Santa Barbara Bastion, general view from southeast tip looking n.w.
14. Santa Barbara Bastion from El Macho looking northwest
15. South wall of Santa Barbara Bastion viewed from forward sentry box
16. Sentry box, Santa Barbara Bastion
17. Sentry box entrance, Santa Barbara Bastion
18. Breast wall, coping detail, Santa Barbara Bastion, extreme east end
19. Gun tracks, north side, Santa Barbara Bastion
20. General view of north side Santa Barbara Bastion, El Macho, and Carmen and Tejeda Bastion
21. Ochoa and Carmen Bastions viewed from the northeast with west face of Tejeda Bastion to the far right
22. General view west from Tejeda Bastion with Santa Barbara Bastion in the background
23. General view of the top gundeck looking northwest from Austria Bastion showing ramp down and parapet wall of the Plaza de Armas on lower level
24. World War II observation post, Cabarello level, seen from Carmen Bastion
25. Latrine Santa Barbara Bastion
26. Collecting ditch at base of El Macho wall on Santa Barbara Bastion
27. View up main ramp from Santa Barbara Bastion
28. View of entrance to Triangular staircase showing buttress and part of El Macho wall
29. Entrance to Tejeda Bastion from Carmen Bastion
30. Close-up of entrance to Tejeda Bastion from Carmen Bastion
31. Ramp to Austria Bastion as seen through archway south end of Plaza de Armas
32. Plaque on outer face of Austria Bastion
33. Ramp between Carmen and Ochoa Bastions viewed from the west
34. Ramp from Carmen Bastion to either Ochoa or Odisa Bastion with view of lighthouse to the right
35. Plaque on corner of Ochoa Bastion viewed from the east
36. View of El Macho from top of Santa Barbara Bastion
37. Close-up of stairs in previous photo, leading up to El Macho and down to Plaza de Armas, from Santa Barbara Bastion, viewed from northwest
38. Detail of head of circular staircase between Santa Barbara Bastion and lower court
39. Scanning Post, Santa Barbara Bastion, viewed from that bastion
40. Mounted cannon and embrasures
41. North wail of floating battery viewed from the south
42. Sentry box at foot of great ramp between Santa Barbara and Plaza de Armas
43. Interior of sally port
44. Looking into sally port from Plaza de Armas
45. Bridge across moat with sally port to the left, viewed from southeast
46. View of Plaza de Armas taken through archway between Plaza de Armas and Carmen Bastion, looking southwest
47. Elevation of chapel, Plaza de Armas
48. Oblique view of elevation of chapel
49. Casemate #7, Plaza de Armas
50. Casemate #9, Plaza de Armas, one wing open
51. Casemate #23, Plaza de Armas to show door and shutters, buttress at left contains leader to cistern
52. Original door to casemate #25, exterior side
53. Trough and vaulting under main staircase to lower court, viewed from the north
54. Entrance from tunnel, exterior view of floating battery
55. Elevation of typical casemate entrance in lower court
56. Interior of casemate lower court level looking out toward stairs
57. Traces of range and hood, interior of kitchen casemate, lower court
58. Casemates under and on south side of main ramp on Santa Barbara Bastion
59. Vaulting over main ramp to show construction on seaward side of wall
60. Interior of circular staircase taken at court level
61. Scrollwork on triangular staircase south of Poaza de Armas
62. Triangular staircase south of Plaza de Armas
63. Interior of casemates, lower level
64. Interior, door to gun port in casemate #14, Plaza de Armas
65. Interior of casemate #17, showing vaulting of one arch
66. Interior of casemate #17, showing vaulting of two arches
67. Interior, floor of casemate #18, showing inscription of heart within circle
68. Interior, floor of casement #18, showing historic grafetti
69. Interior, door to casemate #24
70. Interior, casemate #27
71. Interior, historic grafetti, in niche in east side of round tower below Santa Barbara Bastion
72. Interior, view of triangular staircase between Santa Barbara and Carmen Bastions
73. Interior, tunnel to tower below Santa Barbara Bastion
74. Interior of latrine, Santa Barbara Bastion
General view (duplicate of HABS No. PR-48-75)

CONTROL #:
PR0076

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