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Sunday/ Old Mazatlán architecture 🏫

Here is a sample of architecture that caught my eye as I walked around Old Mazatlán.

Casa Paredes Herrasti was designed by a young French architect and built in 1907 as a family home for Doña Francisca Rojas de Paredes, a direct descendant of Don Bonifacio Rojas who discovered the prosperous gold and silver mine of El Tajo in 1655.
[Source: oceanblueworld.com]
It need a a lot of restoration work.
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Founded in 1845 by the company Heymann Sucesores, in this building was the commercial house known as La Merceria Alemana. It operated as a store for luxury furnishments (pianos, porcelain from Dresden and Meissen, Baccarat and Bohemian crystal), until the beginning of World War II.
The orange building opened as a commercial house in 1900 and is called La Casa Elorza. It exported products to Guatemala and Chile. The property functioned as a renowned high school at the end of the 20th century.
A colorful mural. The deer is the primary symbol of Mazatlán, rooted in the Nahuatl word mazatl (“deer”) and tlan (“place of”), translating to “Place of Deer”.

 

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