Casa Ronald - Callao Monumental

This guide to Casa Ronald in Callao Monumental traces a single office building that took twenty-eight years to finish, from around 1900 to 1928, commissioned by a Callao merchant named Guillermo Ronald with an English engineer, Bunting. You'll hear about the imported materials that went into it, reinforced concrete, Italian marble, cedar paneling, and the port's first-ever elevator, plus the fourteen marble busts of European composers and artists Ronald lined its central passage with. Listen for the central passage running straight through from Independencia street to Constitucion street.