Quinta Heeren, Historic mansion in Lima District, Peru.
Quinta Heeren is a residential estate of about 36,000 square metres in Barrios Altos, Lima, built in the Austro-Hungarian historicist style with Victorian and eclectic influences. It is laid out around a main square with narrow streets and gardens adorned with vases and sculptures. Its buildings include a bright yellow two-storey mansion with dark blue trim, dark shutters and a small cupola, and a cream-coloured facade with a curved gable and a balustraded balcony.
Originally established around the 1880s by German merchant Óscar Antonio Federico Augusto Heeren Massa, the property served as a diplomatic hub housing multiple country embassies from 1901 to 1940.
The estate became a center for Creole festivals and community gatherings, preserving Lima's aristocratic heritage while showcasing the multicultural diplomatic history of early 20th-century Peru.
The estate stands in Barrios Altos, within Lima's historic centre, and was declared uninhabitable in 2016 after a 2006–2010 vacating process. The Metropolitan Municipality of Lima bought it on 10 October 2025 and announced recovery work on 21 January 2026, so expect restoration activity rather than open visiting.
The estate once had a zoo and a tennis court, both the first of their kind in Lima, plus an artificial lagoon with swans. A condor named Pochola escaped and was killed by a trolley in the 1940s; residents had it embalmed and kept it in one of the houses.
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