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Address:San Ignacio 61, e/ Empedrado y O’reilly, Habana Vieja
Construction date:1720 Restoration:Enrique Gil, 1931Second restoration: Severino Rodríguez,1963 |
Current use:
This house with its elegant location facing the Cathedral offers the possibility of appreciating the most elegant façade of the Cuban colonial architecture, with its primitive simplicity given by the symmetrical distribution of spaces in two stories without mezzanine and the proper round off of the Creole tile roof. The portal for what a licensed was obtained in 1754 was never built.
The interior courtyard is square and surrounded by a succession of solid Tuscan columns with arches reduced in the ground floor and a continuous architrave in the upper floor. The staircase, unusual in its location at the back, its design is also remarkable composed of two isolated branches ascending in opposite directions.
The greater interest of this work is focused in the elaborated designs of its carved and ornate wood ceilings complemented with the richness of the colonial art collections presented.
