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Casa Rosada

Government and Civic Buildings

The Casa Rosada, meaning the Pink House, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and serves as the executive mansion and office of the President of Argentina, taking its current form through a series of nineteenth century building campaigns that joined a former fort and a customs house into a single structure between 1873 and 1898. Its distinctive salmon-pink color has been explained by several traditions, including a wish to blend the red and white colors of Argentina's rival nineteenth century political factions and a more practical account that early paint was mixed with ox blood as a preservative against damp. The building's balcony above the main entrance is closely associated with Eva Peron, who addressed large crowds gathered in the plaza below from that spot during her husband Juan Peron's presidency. The Casa Rosada remains the working office of the Argentine president, though not a residence, and its interior houses a museum devoted to the country's presidential history.

Facts
Building Type
Official workplace of the President of Argentina 1
Location
Buenos Aires, Argentina 1
Completed Year
1898 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Government / Parliament Building 2
Connections

Has Building Type

Parliament Building, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Architectural Eclecticism, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Casa Rosada
Italianate Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Casa Rosada
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Argentina, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Casa Rosada
  • Infobox, building_type
    Official workplace of the President of Argentina
  • Lead paragraph 1, sentence 1
    located in Buenos Aires
  • History
    was completed in 1898
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Casa Rosada, meaning the Pink House, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and serves as the executive mansion and office of the President of Argentina, taking its current form through a series of nineteenth century building campaigns that joined a former fort and a customs house into a single structure between 1873 and 1898. Its distinctive salmon-pink color has been explained by several traditions, including a wish to blend the red and white colors of Argentina's rival nineteenth century political factions and a more practical account that early paint was mixed with ox blood as a preservative against damp. The building's balcony above the main entrance is closely associated with Eva Peron, who addressed large crowds gathered in the plaza below from that spot during her husband Juan Peron's presidency. The Casa Rosada remains the working office of the Argentine president, though not a residence, and its interior houses a museum devoted to the country's presidential history.
  • In Style: Italianate Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: Italianate-Eclectic
  • In Style: Architectural Eclecticism, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: Italianate-Eclectic
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2. Wikidata: Casa Rosada
  • Wikidata Q478926, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q478926, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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