Tabasco History Museum (House of Tiles)

The House of Tiles is one of the few testimonies of the stately architecture of the nineteenth century. This enclosure is located in the corners that form the streets Benito Juárez and February 27, less than 200 meters from the Government Palace in the Historic Center of the city of Villahermosa, Tabasco. It has an eclectic stylistic beauty that combines the Mudejar influence of polylobed arches and tiles of oriental design, with ogive arches (neo-Gothic) and neo-baroque, neoclassical sculptures, calligraphed iron balconies, red brick walls distributed over two floors, tiled roofs brought from Barcelona and with ceilings built in the Catalan vault style. It was originally owned by Victoriano Nieves Céspedes, who ceded the property to his daughter Ana Eugenia Nieves de Repetto; she sold it to José María Graham Mac'Gregor, who lived with his wife and children. José María Mac'Gregor made it the most sumptuous house in the city. It was declared a historical monument by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and since 1985, it is the headquarters of the Tabasco History Museum.