History of the House

It was 1905, when Don Federico Aguilar Solís married Mrs. Consuelo Pinzon Carrillo. Both living with his mom, Mrs. Marina Solis Franco widow of Aguilar, in a house of her uncle over 59th Street, in a flat-front house. It was then when Mrs. Martina Solis offered her son a few golden coins, so he could buy the land lot located over the same 59th Street #636, where he started building the home for the Aguilar Pinzon Family.

Around 4 years later, before even finishing the house completely, they decided to move in. The house had in the right side the main bedroom and in the left side the living room. Over the right side two more bedrooms where built, a small one, currently the kitchen, and a bigger one, where the three daughters slept: Bertha, Aida and Helena, together with their father-side grandmother.

Continuing in the right side it was the bathroom, and later the kitchen which was being built little by little, which since the last renewal in 2008 become a guestroom. A little further was the service room, currently more rooms. Mrs. Bertha, the oldest daughter, tells us that the area for the dining room was the well and the weather vane, as they never had a dining room as such. Nowadays, it still keeps the wheather vane right next the swimming pool.

Both original patios are still ekpt, offering our guests the charm of the traditional, with fruit trees to provide shade to the corridors and its columns that decorate and protect this gorgeous property.

Many years later, the house was sold and became a highschool, and to cover the needs of the new school 7 more clasrooms were built in the rear patio. After several years of operation, the school had to close its doors, being on sale one more time. Finally it was purchased and renewed to become a hotel and be able to offer Merida’s visitors a lodging place full of luxury and tradition.

Description of the Guestrooms

#1 Maria Antonieta
The style of this guestroom is completely Art Noveau, which dates back approximately from 1880. The holm oak wood used in this bedroom is considered one of the fine woods.

#2 Josefina
This bedroom has an early Art Deco style, for thatr eason it could be considered as from the transition period between Art Noveau and Art Deco, around 1920. The wood used inn this bedroom is very rare and it is called Bird’s Eye.

#3 Dolores del Rio
This bedroom has a Victorian style, which born in the mid of the XIX century, around 1850. One can appreciate a monogram on relief, which indicates that it was especially done and under a unique design for the owners. Its wood is holm oak.

#4 Pedro Infante
This guestroom is 100% Art Deco, created during the most important moment of this style, during the 30’s, all in fine wood of mahogany.

#5 Luis XV
This guestroom, as its name indicates, is Luis XV style (Louis XV), this style begins in the first half of the XVIII century, designs that even nowadays enrich many spaces of great mansions. The wood used in this pretty guestroom is mahogany.

#6 Country
This guestroom has an influence of the Early American style, from the decade of 1930 approximately. Its wood is holm oak.

#7 Napoleonica
The furniture used in this guestroom are First French Empire style, which born in the end of the XVIII century and concludes in the early XIX century. This design is vastly rich in bronze and golden, as well as its wood carvings in ebony.

#8 Inglesa
This guestroom has an English Art Deco style, enriched with an abundant and fine marquetry in all the furniture used in this gorgeous room. The wood used is of fine holm oak.

#9 Frida Kahlo
This beautiful guestroom has a purely Victorian design, its metallic headboards with inlay of led that gives them a very European and glamorous touch.

#10 Veneciana
This guestroom has a Victorian design from its last phase, it has a beautiful combination of bronze, marquetry and olm tree wood, which makes it a compliment for the eyesight. Its age is calculated from the end of the XIX century.

#11 Maria Felix
This incredible guestroom show a French style, approximately from 1920 to 1930, with beautiful and pronounced carvings in its corners and decorated in golden and flowers, just as La Doña, Mexico’s diva, like it. It is a tribute to this great Mexican figure world wide famous, and for that reason we have named it Maria Felix.

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Casa de las Columnas Calle 59 #636 entre 80 y 82 C.P. 97000 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
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