Casa e Papelaria Muñoz

The historic building of the Muñoz family on Palacio Street has regained its original facade through the restoration of the building at Via Palacio 13.

It is undoubtedly one of the most representative elements of the architectural heritage in Huelva. It was built in 1909, with design and direction by architect Francisco Hernandez Rubio. This building belonged to the Muñoz family, who edited the magazine La Provincia. Two important Onuben (from Huelva) writers lived there: María Luisa Muñoz de Vargas, heir to the family, and Rogelio Buendía, whom he married.

The building, an old English stationery shop, is the symbol of Huelva in the first part of the 20th century is located in the center of the city facing the secular commercial street of reference in Huelva. The property has three stories high, developing a commercial premises on the ground floor and two homes on the upper floors.

The slender and asymmetrical composition of the façade, motivated by its greater height than its length, accentuated by some vertical clean brick fascias that divide the façade are unified with the use of the predominant chamfered glazed brick in a group where the tumido arch stands out on the first floor and the use of spaces where the framing of lintels and jambs opt for curved lines in a definition close to the modernist language.

Also notable is the stone balcony on corbels to which the splendid carpentry that closes the tumid arch opens, the grille modernist style of the same balcony and the access gate to the hallway on the ground floor.

Behind the restoration of the building is a company from Huelva, Grupo Lyncis, who have taken over the entire building to restore the original elements of the facade and turn it into a contemporary symbol as the headquarters of real estate company Lyncis Real State.

During the restoration/renovation of the new commercial building, the original ground floor facade was restored with the arch that can still be admired in the old photo.

"The building is located in the center of the city and gives the facade to the secular reference commercial street in Huelva.

The architect responsible for the project, Alfredo González González, says that the restoration of the iconic arched facade has received a lot of attention in their action plan.