Casona de Lopez Contreras

The fifth Las Mercedes denominated by the community of La Quebradita as La Casona de López Contreras contains four fundamental values ​​that earned it the recognition of Cultural Interest Asset by the Cultural Heritage Institute of Venezuela who published its file in the first catalog of the Venezuelan Cultural Heritage corresponding to the Capital District. These values ​​are: The first of these and perhaps the least known is its direct relationship with the Judgment of Civil and Administrative Liability, more political than judicial process that after the coup against Medina on October 18 opens the Adeco Triennium, being developed against the Andean coming from the Revolutionary Liberal Revolt of Cipriano Castro among which López Contreras was a staunch anticommunist who persecuted Rómulo Betancourt -integrante of the generation of 28- when he figured as an opponent of the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. Secondly, La Casona is directly linked to a little known and perhaps almost forgotten moment of the parish La Vega as they were the installation of the Caracas Country Club in the spaces that today occupies the National Land Institute (INTI) fact that goes linked to the existence of four farms in La Quebradita as a space of greater political, social and economic importance that the El Paraíso urbanization, last sector with which it would have joined to form a privileged and exclusive area in Caracas that ended up being located in the east from the city. From the above and in third place its value as a sample of the architecture of the Spanish Renaissance known in Venezuela as Neocolonial is revealed, the most relevant fact being that it is built in a wooded area and separated from the parish of La Vega by an unknown Puerto Rican architect. ; Hernando Hernández Batista who is influenced by the Spanish regional architecture, style developed in his occupied and colonized country by his maximum exponent the architect Pedro Adolfo de Castro and Besosa (1895-1935) and in Venezuela by Manuel Mujica Millán. Finally and last is the fact of housing for 40 years at two Liceos Luis Razetti (1946-1967) and Pablo Acosta Ortiz (1967-1984), educational institutions where the closest relationship is built with all those who studied there without belonging to the community, but also with this, since La Casona is a privileged witness of how the sector is transformed from 1942 to the present. The Casona de López Contreras is often confused with the Casa de Campo de Guzman Blanco located in Mamera Parish Antimano, but they are two epochs and two different presidents.