Thank you for expanding your great content to Mexico. I am a Mexican man living in New York and actually have seen the remnants of this once beautiful mansion. Did you know that Mexico City was one named "The City of Palaces"? Just like Rome the Eternal & Paris of Light. Most of the Palaces are still there and function today in the heart of the Historic District as Museums, Hotels, Retail & sadly some even as parking lots. But the facades are mostly all still there.
Fue antes que los novohispanos traicionarais a vuestro imperio y vuestro rey. Ahora no sois nada. Malditos traidores. Sólo sois la señora del servicio de los anglosajones. Vergüenza. Que mal hicimos en civilizaros
I live in one of the apartments (the bedroom was in the exact corner of Antonio Caso and Vallarta in the second floor) of this beautiful mansion, when i was a student in Mexico City. So sad to see how thos grand dame has been neglected.
Hello, I am from Mexico and although this mansion no longer exists, you can make a video of the Rivas mansion of the architect who made the Angel of Independence, it is renovated and is now a museum, also another mansion that is preserved intact and is on the Paseo de La Reforma is the mansion of the Gargollo family and now it is the University Club, it is beautiful... greetings.
Thank you for your beautiful video, I was born in Mexico City and now live in the US, I have read about the Landa y Escandón family and I have seen what remains of that beautiful mansion, you are doing a great job in preserving history.
He pasado varias veces por ahí y no me habría imaginado lo esplendorosa que fue, las cercas y los espacios abiertos le daban una vista impresionante a la gran cantidad de ornamentaciones. Ojalá pudiera restaurarse. Gracias por el video.
Thank you Ken for telling the story of this magnificent mansion in Mexico City. My parents were born in Zacatecas Mexico. There are beautiful old mansions and churches in Mexico. The Guadalajara Cathedral in Jalisco ground breaking date was 1561 and completed 1618. I love my heritage and culture.
I love Mexico City! I have visited many times. It is a sprawling city comprised of many unique neighborhoods. I was surprised to see the old picture of the Zocalo, with the center area as a park…how lovely that must have been! The Paseo de la Reforma is lined with stately buildings. I would like to know more about the Opera house in particular; it is so beautiful, inside and out. (just a side note, I was meeting friends for lunch at the top of the Latin American tower when the building began swaying in an earthquake…😮 Being from Los Angeles I knew to remain seated until the tremor stopped. Then… all h*ll broke loose! I can laugh now…😂
There's a magazine of the porfirista era called " El mundo ilustrado"that covers many subjects of that time and different matters with lots of pictures, and there was this section called " Grandes casas de Mexico" that showed the houses and mansions of different nembers of the Mexican upper class and foeeigners that also lived in nice places in Mexico city..🎉
A few months ago I started posting on the lost architecture subreddit and one of the first posts was this mansion, I like to think I've sparked interest
I feel a knot in my stomach when I see these structures destroyed. People with so much wealth don't have any remorse . They can build another mansion somewhere else...no problem. Thank you for your research. Your new subscriber in Canada.
That architecture of its time was spectacular. They were constructed with high quality materials. Not like the cheap construction material they build homes today.
Paseo de la Reforma is one of the great losses of North American architecture, a parisean-like avenue flanked by marvellous palaces and beautiful mansions, just like what happened to Gilded Age's 5th avenue 😢
Mexico City used to be a beautiful city. It is so sad how it (like many U.S. cities) have deteriorated because of corrupt wealth. This mansion is impressive. Good report, Ken.
There’s also the complete disregard and even disrespect, of construction codes since the 1950s, resulting in very many surreptitious demolitions, or large scale razing of historic complexes. This is common in a lot of Latin American cities, and certain European cities (Naples, Italy, has had illegal constructions and demolitions going on since the early 1800s, which you can see when residential balconies somehow share a pediment to a 600-year-old church).
The city is still beautiful. It’s a clash of cultures and styles and that what makes it a creative explosion. I’d take that over bland and orderly any day.
OH my goodness! how in heavens name did I miss this mansion? I lived in Mexico City 12 years in my 20's and I know where the street Antonio Caso is. What a shame to see the disrespect to a once lovely mansion and home of Don Guillermo de Landa. My heart sank 😥 That is the problem when owners run out of wealth or run out of the country and abandon their homes, this time due to the revolution. So sad to see commercials and graffiti on the bottom level. This is once place I would not like to visit. 💔
From what I can discern (having studied history and archeology for some 10 years, albeit on my own), construction designs are eerily similar on a global scale. The enormity & artistry seemed to be a source of pride & skill lacking in society today. Also, far too many of these structures were destroyed in the same 100-150 year span. We've lost something as a society, imo. Still so much to uncover.
A lot of these buildings you may be referring to, are the result of the explosive effects that the Secessionist movement had in Austria and subsequently all of Europe, that was adopted almost globally (not so much in the USA and Africa). Starting in about 1898/1899, the secessionists sought to break from the stringent norms of classicism and academicism, and so sought to create a new, young style, or “jugendstil” (in the German speaking world and Baltic countries). This movement would be later known as art nouveau (France), Liberty (Italy, Switzerland, Argentina and Uruguay), and modernism (anglophone world, lusophone countries and Spain). About the latter; a lot of people would be surprised to know that art nouveau, art deco, and rationalist neoclassicism, are all modernist movements.
Sad to see the graffiti, but at least some of the exterior ornament remains. Revolutions are not kind to opulent buildings, but as others have said, oppression breeds discontent. Various aspects of the mansion's exterior remind me of the Spanish Colonial Revival buildings in our San Diego Balboa Park, especially the California Tower and Museum of Fine Art. These buildings were originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition.
Maximiliano was a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte. He basically was told that he either goes and bees the emperor of Mexico or face firing squad and unfortunately that’s how he ended in front of a foreign squad in Mexico. His wife supposedly apparently went insane after she returned home to France. Very interesting history. I grew up here in Mexico.
KEN, I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT I WANT TO SEE HAPPEN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO SEE A SIGN ON THAT MEXICO CITY HOUSE THAT SAYS ONE THING: RESTORATION UNDERWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So sad.My family lived in an Hacienda in Linares Nuevo León. They were driven out of it. My great uncle was quite a man. He founded El Banco Mercantile de Monterey. Now known as BanNorte. They were wealthy cultivated people. People look down upon Mexicans because they are ignorant. I grew up with two maids, a chauffeur. And the Gardner. Maestro. Around 5 people were employed by my family. And we were not rich, we were upper middle class people. My stepfather was blind. So he had to have a driver. I never washed dishes. I never cleaned house, or any household duties. Lololol I do now! 😅
Thanks sir, I'm mexican but didn't know anything about this mansion. It's a shame the today condition of such building, but reflects the fact that Porfirism was an age of inequities, today's México hasn"t superate them.
FALSE! The most luxury house in Nexico City was Braniff's house in 27 Reforma Avenue. This house was desigbed by the English architect Charles Hall in 1888 and it was similar to Mc. Cormick's house in the USA in the same time. Unfortunately hat luxury, impresive and astonishing house which has five thousands square meters garden was demolished in 1937.
Corporations are running up the cost of rents in the US. One corporation owns 300,000 houses here. Corporate landlords are colluding with others to match the high rents in their area.
@pavelow235 The same thing is happening in Spain except that it’s with the heavy, overwhelming flow of European tourists. The locals, especially in Barcelona, cannot find any housing available or affordable. Property owners have turned their properties into Airbnbs thus generating more money by doing so. Protests have taken place and tourists have faced hostile encounters with the local people.
@Dina52328 The same thing is happening in Tijuana, Mexico 🇲🇽 Americans are moving to Mexico to avoid the high cost of living in San Diego and Los Angeles and are raising the cost of rents and ownership in once affordable Tijuana ... Down town Tijuana residents are forced to move farther and farther away from the city... Sad to see 😢
I am proudly Mexican and this is just one of many mansions that were and still are in the more affluent parts of the city. The looting that occurred during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 was a byproduct of the centuries of oppression suffered by the common folk. That and the familie’s ties to the illegitimate government of Maximilian brought their much deserved downfall.
@@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599 The Second Mexican Empire was NOT illegitimate. The Conservatives were just as legitimate of a Mexican political faction as the liberals, and Maximilian was elected by the Assembly of Notables. You have no clue what Maximilian did for the underclass and the Indigenous people. Your comments are always off the mark.
I'll say it looks more comfortable and welcoming than the Gilded Age palaces in New York City and Baltimore. Those were truly going for Versailles scale opulence and ballroom warehouse space. This was a big house, and still opulent for the country, but on a more human scale.
@@danmur2797There are much more opulent palaces in Mexico, on the same scale as New York. One is a model of a Venetian palace. Mexico City was nicknamed ‘The City of Palaces’ by Alexander Humboldt in the 19th century.
Thank you for expanding your great content to Mexico. I am a Mexican man living in New York and actually have seen the remnants of this once beautiful mansion. Did you know that Mexico City was one named "The City of Palaces"? Just like Rome the Eternal & Paris of Light. Most of the Palaces are still there and function today in the heart of the Historic District as Museums, Hotels, Retail & sadly some even as parking lots. But the facades are mostly all still there.
Thank you for your enlightening response. 💙
@@jimwiskus8862 Exactly, information you won't find in history books.
Fue antes que los novohispanos traicionarais a vuestro imperio y vuestro rey. Ahora no sois nada. Malditos traidores. Sólo sois la señora del servicio de los anglosajones. Vergüenza. Que mal hicimos en civilizaros
The interior architectural elements were stunningly beautiful.
It always saddens me to see such beautiful history being altered or destroyed; they’re irreplaceable.
I live in one of the apartments (the bedroom was in the exact corner of Antonio Caso and Vallarta in the second floor) of this beautiful mansion, when i was a student in Mexico City. So sad to see how thos grand dame has been neglected.
Hello, I am from Mexico and although this mansion no longer exists, you can make a video of the Rivas mansion of the architect who made the Angel of Independence, it is renovated and is now a museum, also another mansion that is preserved intact and is on the Paseo de La Reforma is the mansion of the Gargollo family and now it is the University Club, it is beautiful... greetings.
That was an amazing story, not mention the mansion. I’m amazed it’s still standing. Thank you Ken!💙
Mexico City is fantastic!!!!
Thank you for your beautiful video, I was born in Mexico City and now live in the US, I have read about the Landa y Escandón family and I have seen what remains of that beautiful mansion, you are doing a great job in preserving history.
Thanks fot your video, I'm from México and I fell happy to know that a foreing person is carrying about this kind of topics please do more.
He pasado varias veces por ahí y no me habría imaginado lo esplendorosa que fue, las cercas y los espacios abiertos le daban una vista impresionante a la gran cantidad de ornamentaciones. Ojalá pudiera restaurarse. Gracias por el video.
Thank you Ken for telling the story of this magnificent mansion in Mexico City. My parents were born in Zacatecas Mexico. There are beautiful old mansions and churches in Mexico. The Guadalajara Cathedral in Jalisco ground breaking date was 1561 and completed 1618. I love my heritage and culture.
I’m from Jerez, Zacatecas!
I very much appreciate your research and well-documented material!
Thank you!
Thank you, Ken, for your attention to detail, including the dedicated efforts of pronouncing the Mexican names and titles.
Alguna vez comí en el restaurante, y todavía se le notaba que fue algo excepcional.
I love Mexico City! I have visited many times. It is a sprawling city comprised of many unique neighborhoods. I was surprised to see the old picture of the Zocalo, with the center area as a park…how lovely that must have been! The Paseo de la Reforma is lined with stately buildings. I would like to know more about the Opera house in particular; it is so beautiful, inside and out.
(just a side note, I was meeting friends for lunch at the top of the Latin American tower when the building began swaying in an earthquake…😮 Being from Los Angeles I knew to remain seated until the tremor stopped. Then… all h*ll broke loose! I can laugh now…😂
There's a magazine of the porfirista era called " El mundo ilustrado"that covers many subjects of that time and different matters with lots of pictures, and there was this section called " Grandes casas de Mexico" that showed the houses and mansions of different nembers of the Mexican upper class and foeeigners that also lived in nice places in Mexico city..🎉
A few months ago I started posting on the lost architecture subreddit and one of the first posts was this mansion, I like to think I've sparked interest
I have also posted in many FB groups, I might have as well!
As a trivia fact. Actress Rose Leslie, of game of thrones fame, Is the great granddaughter of Guillermo Landa y Escandón.
Cool. Would never have known that.
😮wow! 🫶🇸🇳
Excellent video. Fascinating story. 👌
Había pequeñas mansiones, o mas bien casas grandes, en una de ellas estudié yo,la primaria. Las fueron destruyendo.😢
I feel a knot in my stomach when I see these structures destroyed.
People with so much wealth don't have any remorse .
They can build another mansion somewhere else...no problem.
Thank you for your research.
Your new subscriber in Canada.
Beautiful and comfortable house! I like the blending of styles of the interior furnishings!
Beautiful,too sad they didn’t keep it like it was!
Wonderful as usual..!!! Thank you..!!
Interesting. I've crossed in front of this building many times and always wondered what it used to be.
SORPRENDENTE !
That architecture of its time was spectacular. They were constructed with high quality materials. Not like the cheap construction material they build homes today.
Paseo de la Reforma is one of the great losses of North American architecture, a parisean-like avenue flanked by marvellous palaces and beautiful mansions, just like what happened to Gilded Age's 5th avenue 😢
I live very close to that corner!!!!
Beautiful!
Mexico City used to be a beautiful city. It is so sad how it (like many U.S. cities) have deteriorated because of corrupt wealth. This mansion is impressive. Good report, Ken.
There’s also the complete disregard and even disrespect, of construction codes since the 1950s, resulting in very many surreptitious demolitions, or large scale razing of historic complexes. This is common in a lot of Latin American cities, and certain European cities (Naples, Italy, has had illegal constructions and demolitions going on since the early 1800s, which you can see when residential balconies somehow share a pediment to a 600-year-old church).
"Because of corrupt wealth" correup wealth built many of these mansions. It was the citie populations voting patterns that led to economic decline.
The city is still beautiful. It’s a clash of cultures and styles and that what makes it a creative explosion. I’d take that over bland and orderly any day.
A los mexicanos les vale madre
The f you’re talking about??? It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world today! GTFO
Muy Grande!
OH my goodness! how in heavens name did I miss this mansion? I lived in Mexico City 12 years in my 20's and I know where the street Antonio Caso is. What a shame to see the disrespect to a once lovely mansion and home of Don Guillermo de Landa. My heart sank 😥 That is the problem when owners run out of wealth or run out of the country and abandon their homes, this time due to the revolution. So sad to see commercials and graffiti on the bottom level. This is once place I would not like to visit. 💔
From what I can discern (having studied history and archeology for some 10 years, albeit on my own), construction designs are eerily similar on a global scale. The enormity & artistry seemed to be a source of pride & skill lacking in society today. Also, far too many of these structures were destroyed in the same 100-150 year span.
We've lost something as a society, imo.
Still so much to uncover.
A lot of these buildings you may be referring to, are the result of the explosive effects that the Secessionist movement had in Austria and subsequently all of Europe, that was adopted almost globally (not so much in the USA and Africa). Starting in about 1898/1899, the secessionists sought to break from the stringent norms of classicism and academicism, and so sought to create a new, young style, or “jugendstil” (in the German speaking world and Baltic countries).
This movement would be later known as art nouveau (France), Liberty (Italy, Switzerland, Argentina and Uruguay), and modernism (anglophone world, lusophone countries and Spain). About the latter; a lot of people would be surprised to know that art nouveau, art deco, and rationalist neoclassicism, are all modernist movements.
Sad to see the graffiti, but at least some of the exterior ornament remains. Revolutions are not kind to opulent buildings, but as others have said, oppression breeds discontent. Various aspects of the mansion's exterior remind me of the Spanish Colonial Revival buildings in our San Diego Balboa Park, especially the California Tower and Museum of Fine Art. These buildings were originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition.
Well this was violation I did not expect 😂😂😂😂they really Frankensteined that poor cottage
Maximiliano was a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte. He basically was told that he either goes and bees the emperor of Mexico or face firing squad and unfortunately that’s how he ended in front of a foreign squad in Mexico. His wife supposedly apparently went insane after she returned home to France. Very interesting history. I grew up here in Mexico.
KEN, I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT I WANT TO SEE HAPPEN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO SEE A SIGN ON THAT MEXICO CITY HOUSE THAT SAYS ONE THING: RESTORATION UNDERWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We just can’t never have nice things 😢
You need to talk about quinta gameros.
Its my favorite one from the ones úve shown from Mexico thank you for the knowledge
Thank you for this. I'm currently staying in a hotel on the same street. I'll check out this building tomorrow.
Great Video! You should take a look at the Palacio Cousiño of Santiago de Chile
So sad.My family lived in an Hacienda in Linares Nuevo León. They were driven out of it. My great uncle was quite a man. He founded El Banco Mercantile de Monterey. Now known as BanNorte. They were wealthy cultivated people. People look down upon Mexicans because they are ignorant. I grew up with two maids, a chauffeur. And the Gardner. Maestro. Around 5 people were employed by my family. And we were not rich, we were upper middle class people. My stepfather was blind. So he had to have a driver. I never washed dishes. I never cleaned house, or any household duties. Lololol I do now! 😅
Thanks sir, I'm mexican but didn't know anything about this mansion. It's a shame the today condition of such building, but reflects the fact that Porfirism was an age of inequities, today's México hasn"t superate them.
Beautiful mansion in its day. Now its just ghettoed out 😑
Ken, the first color picture looks like Maximillian I, emperor of Mexico, brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria
He was talking about his father and the Second Mexican Empire, which is why he shows Maximilian I
I was wondering is carlos slim , contribute to anything, in mexico?
Not Really. Billionaires take more than the give. Charity will never be enough.
He actually has an organization that restores downtown Mexico City from what I remember
FALSE!
The most luxury house in Nexico City was Braniff's house in 27 Reforma Avenue.
This house was desigbed by the English architect Charles Hall in 1888 and it was similar to Mc. Cormick's house in the USA in the same time.
Unfortunately hat luxury, impresive and astonishing house which has five thousands square meters garden was demolished in 1937.
The brutal mob always destroys beauty.
Gringo's are running up rents and prices in CDMX, what do native Mexican's think of the influx of tech bro people?
Corporations are running up the cost of rents in the US. One corporation owns 300,000 houses here. Corporate landlords are colluding with others to match the high rents in their area.
@@oltedders Disagree.
@@pavelow235
Disagree about which? Graffiti or corporate landlords gouging their Tennants.
@pavelow235 The same thing is happening in Spain except that it’s with the heavy, overwhelming flow of European tourists. The locals, especially in Barcelona, cannot find any housing available or affordable. Property owners have turned their properties into Airbnbs thus generating more money by doing so. Protests have taken place and tourists have faced hostile encounters with the local people.
@Dina52328 The same thing is happening in Tijuana, Mexico 🇲🇽
Americans are moving to Mexico to avoid the high cost of living in San Diego and Los Angeles and are raising the cost of rents and ownership in once affordable Tijuana ... Down town Tijuana
residents are forced to move farther and farther away from the city... Sad to see 😢
I am proudly Mexican and this is just one of many mansions that were and still are in the more affluent parts of the city. The looting that occurred during the
Mexican Revolution of 1910 was a byproduct of the centuries of oppression suffered by the common folk. That and the familie’s ties to the illegitimate government of Maximilian brought their much deserved downfall.
@@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599 The Second Mexican Empire was NOT illegitimate. The Conservatives were just as legitimate of a Mexican political faction as the liberals, and Maximilian was elected by the Assembly of Notables. You have no clue what Maximilian did for the underclass and the Indigenous people. Your comments are always off the mark.
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empress whooooo?
❤️🙁
That was a beautiful mansion but at the same time showed what a politician could (and still can)achieved just for being part of the goverment
0:00 ¿así o más clasista este men?
The graffiti is a nice touch.
None of the house looks comfortable or welcoming 2:54
Houses among other buildings were built for beauty and legacy, not practicality.
Personally, I find the place not only comfortable but magnificent.
I'll say it looks more comfortable and welcoming than the Gilded Age palaces in New York City and Baltimore. Those were truly going for Versailles scale opulence and ballroom warehouse space.
This was a big house, and still opulent for the country, but on a more human scale.
@@danmur2797There are much more opulent palaces in Mexico, on the same scale as New York. One is a model of a Venetian palace. Mexico City was nicknamed ‘The City of Palaces’ by Alexander Humboldt in the 19th century.
Mansions aren’t exactly cottages
LOL . "Most mysterious"; sensationalistic hyperbole. LOL.
Sad loss, but this happens when some grow so wealthy at the expense of the poor...