Old Municipal Palace – Circuito Histórico

Community houses were created in 1854. Two years later, the first Municipal Corporation arose. The land was donated by P. N. Rojas and, with the selling of the land, $24,000 pesos were collected to start building the Town Hall. The communal corporation was composed by the president, secretary, treasurer, one police officer and three assistants.

On October 3rd, 1869, the corporation was open for bidding. The construction started where the building is located today. Afterwards, the authorization to buy the furniture was given. On its front, there was the inscription “1870 Town Hall House”.

Schools N° 1 and N°2 were established in 1889 where the Town Hall was located. This generates a problem between the local administration and the Educational Management because they were claiming the title deeds and the right to stay in that place. In November 1907, the adjacent estate owned by Antonio Viñas was purchased for 14.000 Pesos.

In 1930, there was a bidding to repair the old communal house because it was very deteriorated. Ramón Clavel, Juan Frascaroli, Cayetano Alsugaray and Alfredo Ochotorena, created a commission with the purpose to analyse the situation. Finally, they suggested to build a new construction.