Casa Popenoe, Colonial mansion in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

Casa Popenoe is a colonial mansion in Antigua Guatemala featuring traditional Spanish colonial architecture with two central courtyards, thick stone walls, wooden beams, and decorative mixed-line arches. The building spreads across multiple levels with rooms organized around these inner courts.

Venancia López, wife of royal scribe Andrés Guerra, built the house from 1762 on the site of two buildings raised around 1650 by priest Juan de Torres, which in turn stood on the ruin of a 16th-century house of Jacomé de Piña. Frederick Wilson Popenoe bought it in 1930 from Ciriaco Peralta, and in 2007 Marion Popenoe donated it to Universidad Francisco Marroquín.

The house is known as "la casa del Capuchino" for the cypress that still stands in the main courtyard. Frederick Wilson Popenoe bought it in 1930 from Ciriaco Peralta; its decoration, begun by his first wife Dorothy Hughes, who died in 1932, was finished in the 1950s by his second wife Helen Barsaloux. In 2007 Marion Popenoe donated it to the Universidad Francisco Marroquín.

The house stands at the southwest corner of 1a Avenida Sur and 5a Calle Oriente, a short walk from the Santa Catalina arch and the central plaza. It is now held by Universidad Francisco Marroquín and used for academic and cultural events, so access depends on the programme; confirm opening times and group arrangements with the university before setting out.

The house is known as "la casa del Capuchino" because of the cypress tree that still stands in the main courtyard; Frederick Wilson Popenoe bought it under that name from Ciriaco Peralta in 1930. The tree predates his purchase and gave the property its popular nickname.