La Villa Giralda, one of Miramar's historic gems on the corner of Miramar Ave. and José Martí Street, is up for sale with an asking price of $1.85 million.
The mansion, built in 1905, was restored in 1995 by Francisco Arteaga's engineering firm Caribbean Project Management, and has since been used as office space.
Ryan Christiansen, of the real estate company Christiansen & Portela, said Wednesday the firm is accepting offers through Feb. 28.  The two-story building provides office space for about 12 people in a historic setting with a privileged second-floor balcony view of the San Juan bay.  The driveway and front lot could provide parking space for up to eight cars, said Christiansen, if the generator is moved to the back of the house.
Arteaga, who personally supervised the original restoration 10 years ago, reconstructed the mansion's original staircases, which had been removed during the era that the home's rooms were rented out, according to Monserrate Arteaga, Francisco's sister.
"The windows were exact replicas of the original ones and we had to follow the marks left from when the staircases were ripped out because all the partitions were gone", said Arteaga of the building, which was abandoned in the early 80's.
The building, which is currently equipped with central air conditioning, IT and modern office wiring, still boasts its original tin and wood roof and zinc tiles,  reinforced in 1995 to meet current building standards.
The original kitchen was removed to be used as the building's vestibule, but the home's criollo-style tile remains in the room.  The rest of the building's flooring is carpeting of vinyl. 
Antonio Lema, who bought the building in the 50's, used the adjacent yard to construct a second building, to which he moved his family Arteaga said.
"For our community, Villa Giralda is an important historic landamrk", said Miramar Residents Association President María de Lourdes Jiménez, Wednesday.  "We would prefer that it not be up for sale and that it would stay in our community, as it did with (Francisco) Arteaga, but we are hopeful it will be put to a use that is in harmony with our community".
Miramar was given its hard-fought historic zoning in March 2005, but because the Planing Board has yet to pass norms regulating the approximately 600 structures covered by the new law, a loophole has been created that residents fear could lead to the destruction of other historic landmarks in the neighborhood.
The Miramar neighborhood includes an array of works by some of the island's most important architects - Henry Klum, Antonín Nichodoma, Joseph O' Kelly and Pedro de Castro, who designed El Castillo Serrallés in Ponce.
Among the other historic buildings are the neogothic chapel on Miramar Avenue, designed by Nichodoma; the José Benítez mansion and Casa Aboy, now known as the Cultural Center, both located on Ponce de León Avenue.
The historic zone includes Miramar proper, and extends in the north to the Baldorioty de Castro Expressway and the Condado Lagoon; in the east to Cerra Street; and in the south and west to the Luis Muñoz Rivera Expressway.
Christiansen & Portela, real estate brokers or office, commercial and industrial real estate have several other key metro area building for sale or lease in their portfolio, Christiansen said.  