page_title: Rafael Carmoega
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Rafael Carmoega / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Mercado de las Carnes − Plaza Juan Ponce de Leon — located within the Ponce Historic Zone, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. On the National Register of Historic Places in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
context_page_description: Rafael Carmoega Morales was a Puerto Rican architect from Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. He was the first Puerto Rican to become State Architect, a position within the Department of the Interior which he held from 1921 to 1936. Carmoega was one of the most accomplished Puerto Rican architects of the 20th century.
context_section_description: Rafael Carmoega Morales was born in Ponce in 1894.
caption: The Ponce Meat Market, designed by Carmoega
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