Prey to flames and in ruins due to the raging fire that devastated it during the protests in the Center Lime, home marcionelli It is a great loss for the architecture and history of the Peru. Below we will tell you more details about this historic property.
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But why was it named after the Marcionelli house? When was it built? and what is the story that kept?
To know reliable information about the Marcionelli house, there is nothing better than the testimony of the renowned historian Juan José Pacheco Ibarra.
With publications in academic journals, the researcher with studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of San Marcos, where he obtained a degree in History, Juan José Pacheco Ibarra, gives us very interesting data on the devastated Marcionelli house.
Why the house name Marcionelli?
The Marcionelli house “was owned by Mr. Severino Marcionelli (1870-1957) born in Bironico, canton of Ticino, Switzerland”, who “arrived in Peru at a very young age and at the age of 20 participated in the construction of the La Galera tunnel, in Ticlio, the highest in the world”, refers the historian.
The house on fire is located on the 9th block of Jirón Carabaya.
Regarding the businessman, remember that Marcionelli was a great businessman who ventured into mining and owned the Puquio-Cocha negotiation, the San Ildefonso mine and the Chuicho coal mine. In addition, he founded the Morococha mine and also took over the organization of his mining town.
What did Marcionelli have to do with the Bolivar Hotel?
He ventured into the agricultural sector as the owner of the Uchupata de Huari cattle ranch and in the real estate business, as president of the Jesús María development company and investor in the construction of the Hotel Bolívar, says researcher Juan Pacheco.
“Mr. Marcionelli became the most important member of the Swiss colony in Peru, serving as Swiss honorary consul in Lima. He was also a member of the Helvetica Society, the National Club, the Union Club, the Italian insurance company and the Mining and Petroleum Society ”, the historian specifies.
Flames destroy historic house.
What links the owner of the Marcionelli house with the Children’s Hospital?
Severino Marcionelli was also a man with a big heart and used his fortune to help others.
“His great economic fortune was allocated to charitable works, Marcionelli was a member of the Sociedad de Beneficencia de Lima, donating 100,000 soles for the construction of the Arzobispo Loayza hospital. In memory of one of her children who died at an early age, she financially supported the construction of the Children’s Hospital” from Avenida Brasil, today the National Institute of Child Health, which operates on Avenida Brasil, recalls the historical researcher.
What worked in the Marcionelli house?
Back in Peru, says Juan Pacheco, businessman Severino Marcionelli “acquired, together with his partner, Mr. Hanza, a piece of land on Pacae street, today block 9 of Jirón Carabaya, to build this beautiful three-story residence, finished in the year 1923.”
“In this house the headquarters of the Swiss General Consulate and the offices of the agricultural and mining companies of Mr. Marcionelli functioned until the end of the 40s. This is the story of the Marcionelli house, one of the most beautiful buildings in Lima built in the 1920s and that it was destroyed by fire on January 19, 2023,” he concludes, with evident nostalgia for a historian who loves Lima, Juan José Pacheco Ibarra.
