Residencia Machín–Ramos
Residencia Machín–Ramos is a historic house in San Lorenzo Pueblo, the historic center of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. It sits on Eugenio Sánchez López Street, in front of the town’s public plaza. Built around 1883, the house is the best-preserved example in San Lorenzo of 19th‑century Spanish Creole vernacular architecture, a style that became rarer on the island in the 20th century. While the exact construction date isn’t known, the building appears in property records before 1883. The first known owners were Don Pedro Machín y Flores and his wife Cándida Rosa Machín y Parrilla; the Machín family came from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.
The residence has been declared a historical monument by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and has been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places since 1989 (NRHP ref. No. 88001180). It is also designated a Puerto Rico Historic Site and Zone.
Today, Residencia Machín–Ramos functions as a house museum and houses the Municipal Department of Art, Culture and Tourism of San Lorenzo.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 05:56 (CET).