Great houses of Hermes Mallea

1914 Havana mansion of the Marqués de Avilés




Great houses of Hermes Mallea

Banker Pablo González de Mendoza’s mansion
constructed in 1918 to the specifications of John H. Duncan



Great houses of Hermes Mallea

Former Presidential Palace in Havana
completed in 1920, designed by architects Paul Belau and Carlos Maruri



Great houses of Hermes Mallea

Architects Evelio Govantes and Félix Cabarrocas’s Florentine Renaissance–style mansion
for sugar-plantation owner Juan de Pedro Baró, built in the ’20s



Great houses of Hermes Mallea

1930 Edificio Emilio Bacardí, the 12-story former headquarters of the rum company



Great houses of Hermes Mallea

The U.S. ambassador’s 1941 neoclassical-style residence
designed by architects Paul Franz Jaquet, Leland W. King Jr., and Frederick Larkin.



Great houses of Hermes Mallea
The Y-shaped 1956 hotel-and-casino complex Hotel Riviera
was developed by American gangster Meyer Lansky



Great houses of Hermes Mallea



Great houses of Hermes Mallea

The Condesa de Revilla de Camargo’s ’20s mansion—now the Museo de Artes Decorativas