The initiative of a legislature that seeks to preserve more than 30 historic buildings in the neighborhood of Barracas, Buenos Aires, is progressing successfully. The project has just obtained an opinion from the Commission of Architectural and Landscape Heritage, and proposes to catalog with different levels of protection a total of 42 properties.
According to spokespersons for the entity Proteger Barracas, currently, there are relatively few properties in that area with any type of effective protection, which is why the categorization that was made of these properties from the government for different care differences stands out.
The project plans to protect eight more properties located in San Telmo that are located on Cochabamba, Defensa and Perú streets, by cataloging them within the historical protection area (APH1) of that neighborhood.
The properties that are sought to be preserved are part of a catalog that had already been designed some time ago called a preventive catalog of high heritage value and that has the approval of the Advisory Council of Patrimonial Affairs and the General Directorate of Urban Interpretation.
Some of the buildings that are sought to be protected are the single-family residence of the Tabaco family, now the Republic of Lebanon School; also, rental houses (conventillos) located in Caseros at 900 and Montes de Oca at 200, and residential complexes of different types in Tacuarí and Piedras at 1700.
Also included in the list are icons of state architecture such as the Normal School No. 5 -the first secondary school in Barracas, built in 1909- and the branches of the Banco de la Nación Argentina (Montes de Oca 1687) and the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Montes de Oca 873), among others.
