The Historian · Bautista · Buenos Aires
Pasaje de la Defensa
One building holds the whole social story: elite townhouse, then immigrant tenement, now antique arcade. Walk its patios in order and you read the century.
A restored 1880s San Telmo mansion built around long patios — a single family's home that the yellow fever turned into a crowded conventillo.
— Bautista, The Historian
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