US Postal Office Building

LOIZA STREET STATION

Loiza Street Station was built in 1959 and is a four-story office building located within the heart of Ocean Park and Calle Loiza in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Offering exclusive and flexible office spaces for teams of any size, tenants will benefit from power, water and wifi included in the rent.

1959
Architect - Malcolm Walters O’neill

Historical Background of the Building
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The building originally conceived as the US Postal Office Building by Architect Malcolm Walters O’neill was designed in 1958. Its architecture refers to the Tropical Modernist period a movement that occurred in the mid-20th century in Puerto Rico which was led by Architect Henry Klumb. Architect Malcolm Walters O’neill worked closely with Architect Henry Klumb who came to the island in 1944 as part of the New Deal brain trust planner Rexford Tugwell in the late 1930s, he was invited to move to Puerto Rico in 1944 and collaborate in the design of post-war modern Puerto Rico. Because Walters O'Neill worked in Klumb's studio, we can see the direct influence of Klumb's design on the building specifically on the details of the '“quebrasoles” in the west wing of the building being its main entrance.

The building was designed specifically for the United States Postal Office and a furniture store that would occupy the first and second floor of the structure. Floors 3 and 4 were designed for offices in general.

ABOUT MALCOLM WALTERS O’NEILL
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Malcolm Walters O’neill graduated in Architecture from the prestigious University of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York; Lieutenant Colonel of the US Army; He collaborated in several projects with the renowned architect Henry Klumb; He was the architect in charge of the UPR Student Center; San Ignacio de Loyola College; UAM CAAM Student Dormitory; facilities of the pharmaceutical Parke-Davis; San Juan Municipal Public Works administration building; administration building of the Agricultural Experiment Station; multiple residences and temples among many others.