page_title: Mercado de las Carnes
section_title: Overall
hierarchical_section_title: Mercado de las Carnes / Physical appearance / Overall
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of the Plaza Juan Ponce de Leon (a.k.a., "Plaza de los Perros") meat market in Ponce, Puerto Rico This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 86003199
context_page_description: Mercado de las Carnes, also known as La Plaza de los Perros, but formally, Plaza Juan Ponce de León, was the first building in Puerto Rico to mix social and architectural elements via the pedestrian mall concept. The historic Art Deco architecture structure is located in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and dates from 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The Plaza was rebuilt in 1992, under the administration of Mayor Churumba. It is located in the alley connecting Mayor and Leon streets, in the block between Estrella and Guadalupe streets. The Plaza and the alley are one and the same.
context_section_description: The old "Mercado de las Carnes", or Meat Market, occupies a narrow through-lot connecting Mayor and Leon streets at the center of the block between Estrella and Guadalupe streets.  In plan, the concrete, wood, and sheet-metal structure consists of an elongated quadrangle created by galleries opening onto an attenuated interior court. The neo-mudejar and Art Deco decorative facades appear to be independent of the actual utilitarian structure inside, as they shift slightly in opposite direction off the central court axis to accommodate the mall.
caption: Interior of the Plaza Juan Ponce de León (a.k.a., "Plaza de los Perros") meat market in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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