The building was built at the end of the 1900’s with an Italian style that doesn’t have to do with the overload of French Style that had arrive from the Paris Eccole to our country years after. The Architect is E. Civelli, who has several buildings in Buenos Aires. At that moment, there were two apartments per floor with a 700 meters surface approx. that were made for rent. The building had a great reception at the front, the bedroom area was in the middle and the service dependences with their pantries for food and supply storage.

Through the 50’s the architect Mario Roberto Alvarez, a pride of our architecture, took the work to recycle each apartment that were divided in three individual apartments, one up to the front and two of smaller sizes facing the counter front. Since then, the building was turned into an owner consortium and stops from being a boarding house.

At the end of the 70’s, Hugo del Carril, who had arrived a few years before to Argentina after living in central america and Mexico for several years, buys the property. He was a Tango singer with a privileged voice (he was a Baritone), and with a particular style similar to Carlos Gardel. After Zorzal del tango’s (that was the way Hugo del Carril was called) tragic death, Argentinians considered him Carlos Gardel’s successor, giving his similar singing style. All his life he was committed to people’s ideals.

In 1944, Hugo del Carril and Eva Duarte Perón make the movie “La Cabalgata del Circo” (Circus ride). This was a few years before she met General Juan D. Perón, who will become her husband and inseparable partner until her death. She and Hugo had established a close friendship. A few years later, he would be the official voice of the Peronist March (considered the best interpreted version still used in every party’s act and never stopped from being played and singed among the two most important political parties of our history)

He lived in the house with his family, Violeta Curtois (his wife since 1961) and his four sons (Marcela, Eva, Hugo and Amorina). He points in different interviews that with them he found real happiness.

When the property was purchased by the actual owners, several family assets that were totally damaged were found. After an exhaustive process of recycling, we were able to recover and relocate wood elements, cabinets and tapestry to offer guests a little bit of the great singer, actor and director’s personal history. He lived in this house for about ten years passing trough good times and economical difficulties sometimes.

In 1986 Hugo del Carril was proclaimed Distinguished Citizen by the Buenos Aires City Legislature. He died in August 1989. after several months of disease. In 1995 a plaque was placed at the front of the building that commemorates him as one of the greatest actors, interpreters and directors of our country.

The actual owners worked over the recycle and restoration of the property for about a year due to the damage caused by the lack of maintenance for several years. Its structure was kept exactly as it was with all the structural details in order to preserve the space just as it was when ‘Don Hugo’ (as his friends called him) lived in there.

Today, Hugo del Carril’s soul is present in that space. Now you can enjoy his recordings, movies and a little museum that it’s been updated constantly in order to keep his memory alive and share it with anyone who value the Argentinean cinema golden decade and tango (his owner as the house’s age, which was born at the same time that the first chords and rhythms, of this marvelous music that nowadays attracts an excites people all around the world, started to be listened).