Puerto Rico High School of Commerce

Río Piedras, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

The Puerto Rico High School of Commerce, built in 1941 in Río Piedras, is an Art Deco educational building that once served the island's commercial education sector. Designed in the streamlined geometric style characteristic of 1940s institutional architecture, the structure reflects the period's optimism about modern commerce and industrial training. Now a former school, the building stands as a testament to Puerto Rico's mid-twentieth-century educational infrastructure and the Art Deco aesthetic that shaped many of the island's public institutions during that era.