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Government house. Buenos Aires. Circa 1895.

Gelatin silver print -measures: 15.8 x 21.7 cm / 6.22 x 8.54 in-, sepia toned. Very good copy, individual.


View taken from the North and looking South and from a convenient height point to obtain a panoramic type record. We observe in the foreground the wide esplanade of the Government House. Located on the same site where Don Juan de Garay, shortly after founding the city, ordered the digging of a ditch and embankments, enclosing the origin of what was later called "Royal Fortress of San Juan Baltasar de Austria".


A more solid fort was built on the same site and lasted for a century and a half until it was demolished. Already in the period of Independence, the House that had been the residence of Spanish governors and viceroys, housed the authorities of the successive national governments: the Juntas, the Triunviratos, the Supreme Directors, the Governors of Buenos Aires and the First President of Argentina, Bernardino Rivadavia. Abandoned and partially demolished, it returned to have prominence as the seat of the political government from the year 1862, when Mitre installed himself with his ministers. His successor, Sarmiento, decided to embellish the home of the National Executive Power, endowing it with gardens and painting the facades pink, with which, later, it continued to be characterized.


The construction of the current Government House began in 1873, when by decree it was ordered to raise the Post Office and Telegraph building. A few years later, President Julio A. Roca decided to build the definitive Government Palace, similar to the neighboring Palacio de Correos. Both buildings were joined in 1886 through the portico that today constitutes the entrance to the Casa Rosada that faces Plaza de Mayo. This photograph allows us to appreciate, behind, the tanks and cranes of the third dock of Puerto Madero, inaugurated in 1892. In the foreground, some porteños walk over a very clean city.


We must point out that the Casa Rosada has always captured the attention of generations of photographers and this magnificent nineteenth-century photograph proves it. S.O.IV-OSM

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