Presidential palace, Honduras
The Honduran Presidential Palace is the official residence of the President of the Republic of Honduras.
History
In 1821 the 'City Council of Comayagua' was the first official residence of the Honduran head of state. The location of the capital remained for sixty some years, moving to Tegucigalpa, via Decree No. 11 on October 30th, 1880. Doctor Marco Aurelio Soto, “Reformer of the Republic”, also relocated the judicial and legislative headquarters, the federal reserve, and the state university to Tegucigalpa.
Built by Juan Judas Salavarría, the first official residence in the city of Tegucigalpa was a two-story wooden building, found on the southwest of the Plaza de la Merced.
Offices of the executive were lodged in the second plant, there would be the dispatch of the gentleman president Doctor Soto and the one of the general secretary of government Doctor Ramón Rosa.
In 1883 the president of Honduras, the General Luis Bográn, decided that the busy house by the Plaza de la Merced was not at all suitable, and moved the offices to another building, which became the salon for sessions of the National Congress. This building had bases of stone and walls of season and wide living rooms for the governmental administration, decorated with the banner, pavilion, shields and paintings of the national heroes and a part allocated for the policeman or presidential escort, that later would be the School of Capes and Sergeants.
In this house governed the presidents: General Luis Bogran Barahona, General Ponciano Leiva Madrid, General Domingo Vásquez Toruño, Doctor Polycarpo Bonilla Vásquez, Engineer Terensio Sierra Romero, General Manuel Bonilla Chirinos, Doctor Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuéllar and Doctor Francisco Bertrand Barahona. Doctor Francisco Bertrand Barahona would again move the governmental headquarters to a new building where today one finds the Central Bank of Honduras, and there also worked the offices of national posts.
In 1914 Honduras undertook development for a new seat of government. The Barahona administration purchased a parcel of land from Jerónimo Zelaya for 40,000 Honduran Weights. The Italian architect Augusto Bressani designed the building. The presidential mansion was built using stones from the nearby Tegucigalpa quaries. The façade had a classical Victorian design. It had two stories, runners, surveillance towers, and a presidential office. The building featured a dome, which at the top, flew the national flag. Aposentos, offices in the low plant a living room designated “blue living room” for receptions, recibidor of invited, living room of meetings known like “living room of the mirrors”, playground and cubicles for the presidential policeman, ceilings artesonado wooden and knit of clay, plastered and decorated with lamps of pieces of glass, the runners present statues brought of Italy, floors pavimentados with mosaics (baldosas) and ceramic made in the workshops Bellucci of Italy. This new presidential house, conclude in 1919 under the presidency of the General Rafael López Gutiérrez and his first tenant in 1920, the following rulers in occupying it were: General Vicente Tosta Carrasco, Doctor Miguel Paz Barahona, Doctor Vicente Mejía Colindres, Doctor and General Tiburcio Carias Andean, Doctor Juan Manuel Gálvez, Accountant Julio Lozano Díaz, the Military Triumvirate of 1956-1959, Doctor Ramón Villeda Moral, General Oswaldo López Arellano, Lawyer Ramón Ernesto Cruz, General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, General Polycarp Paz García, Doctor Roberto Suazo Cordova, Engineer José Simón Azcona of the Hoyo, with 72 years of governmental service was presidential house of the two first years of the administration of the Graduate Rafael Leonardo Alleys, the one who would move the headquarters to a modern building in the Governmental Civic Center, in the Boulevard Miraflores, contiguous to the Palace of Justice. Alleys would order the restoration of the Palacete those that would be urgent and costly, now the building is allocated to the National Archive of Honduras (NAH) and a national museum, elevated to National Historical Heritage.
In the following two years of his government, the president Rafael Leonardo Alleys, would manage in a real estate of six levels and conditioned for the offices of the executive, the designated presidential, presidential advisers, the pagaduría, information and governmental press, the office, living room of events, living room of sessions of ministers and other dependencies, although bigger that the palacete, this building did not fulfill with the comforts required. Like this it would receive it his successor the Doctor Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez in 1994.
In 1998 the new constitutional president Engineer Carlos Roberto Floes Facussé, not satisfied with the building chosen by the ex president Alleys Romero, decided to move the headquarters of the executive to a new venue, that was allocated for the Ministry of External Relations. The Palace José Cecilio of the Valley, is an important building that was built in 1988, designed by the architect Jorge Luciano Durón Bustillo. This building has lodged many Presidents of the Republic of Honduras, from Carlos Flores, Graduate Ricardo Mature Joest, gentleman José Manuel Zelaya Rosebushes, the provisional government of the gentleman Roberto Michelleti Bain, the Graduate Porfirio Wolf Sosa, until the current Lawyer Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado.
Other presidential houses
- Between 1852 and 1853 under the presidency of the General José Trinidad Cabins the city of Santa Rosa of Copán turns into provisional capital of the state, the building of the “National House” turns into presidential house. Later, in 1862 during the provisional presidency of the employer Spanish Victorian gentleman Cortés, this chose two houses of his property, for the destinations of the so much Executive offices as of the Legislative Assembly. And finally it was capital also provisoriamente in 1863 to repel the attack of the Guatemalan General José Rafael Career Turcios.
- Between 1875 and 1876 in the city of Thank you, department of Lempira the General José María Medina, occupy a casona of season and ceiling of artesón wooden and knit of clay like his headquarters of government.
See also
References
- Report dated in 23 September 2007. Daily The Herald, Honduras.
- Report dated in 14 May 2011. Daily The Press, Honduras.
Bibliography
- Aguilar, Juan Manuel. "Brief Historical Review of the House of Government of Honduras" Tegucigalpa, Honduras.