Marquis of Sobremonte provincial historical museum, Colonial history museum in central Córdoba, Argentina

The Marquis of Sobremonte provincial historical museum occupies a two-story colonial house at a street corner kept without a chamfer, with a 90-degree corner, a continuous corner balcony, and a projecting eave covered with muslera tiles. Its walls are of calicanto, with one-meter-thick mixed stone and brick masonry on the ground floor ending in vaulted ceilings. Inside are five courtyards and twenty-six rooms, including a chapel and the patio de honor.

This house was built in the middle of the 18th century and served as the residence of a local administrator from 1783 to 1796. After that period, it eventually became public property and was converted into a museum.

The house mixes a family residence and a trading house, arranged around five patios with 26 rooms. Concerts are sometimes held in the courtyard and in some rooms. The collections of Wolf and Monseñor Pablo Cabrera are kept here, along with American paintings, religious imagery and colonial furniture.

The house stands on a corner of a block in Córdoba's commercial area, and that corner was left without the usual chamfered cut so the building's 90-degree angle and corner balcony stay intact. The entrance is through a zaguán whose vault is decorated with peinetones. Concerts are sometimes held in the courtyard and in some rooms.

This building is one of the few surviving residential structures from colonial times in the city, offering a rare direct experience of that era. The handcrafted floor tiles and stone features are original and have been carefully maintained.