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Palacio José Cecilio del Valle

The Presidential Palace of Honduras is the official residence of the president of the Republic of Honduras. Currently the president resides in the Palacio José Cecilio del Valle.

History

19th century

In 1821 the 'City Council of Comayagua' was the first official residence of the Honduran head of state. The location of the capital remained there for almost 60 years, until being moved to Tegucigalpa, via Decree No. 11 on October 30, 1880. Doctor Marco Aurelio Soto, the “Reformer of the Republic”, also relocated the judicial and legislative headquarters, the federal reserve, and the state university to Tegucigalpa.

The first presidential house in the city of Tegucigalpa was a two-story wooden building built by Juan Judas Salavarría, located on the south west side of Plaza de la Merced. Today it is the ground floor of the current Legislative Palace. The executive offices were housed on the second floor, where there were the offices of Mr. President Dr. Soto and the government Secretary General Dr. Ramón Rosa .

In 1883 the president of Honduras, the General Luis Bográn, decided that the busy house by the Plaza de la Merced was not suitable enough, and moved the offices to another building, which was to the right of the session hall of the National Congress. This building had stone foundations, walls made out of adobe, and wide living rooms for the governmental administration, decorated with the national banner, pavilion, shields, and paintings of the national heroes. It also had a part allocated for the guard or presidential escort, which would later become the School of Capes and Sergeants.

The following Honduran presidents lived in this house: General Luis Bográn Barahona, General Ponciano Leiva Madrid, General Domingo Vásquez Toruño, Doctor Policarpo Bonilla Vásquez, Engineer Terencio Sierra Romero, General Manuel Bonilla Chirinos, Doctor Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuéllar and Doctor Francisco Bertrand Barahona. Doctor Francisco Bertrand Barahona would again move the governmental headquarters to a new building where today one finds the Central Bank of Honduras, and where there used to be the national post office.

20th century

In 1914 Honduras undertook development for a new seat of government. The Barahona administration purchased a parcel of land from Jerónimo Zelaya for 40,000 Honduran pesos. The Italian architect Augusto Bressani designed this new presidential mansion. It was a two-story stone building with a classical Victorian façade, watchtowers, a presidential office, and a dome atop which flew the national flag. It also had apartments, offices on the ground floor called “blue living rooms” for receptions, a meeting room known as the “hall of mirrors”, a patio and cubicles for the presidential guard, ceilings with wood and clay tiling plastered and decorated with glass shard lamps, corridors lined with statues brought from Italy, and floors paved with mosaics and ceramics made in the workshops of Bellucci in Italy. Construction finished on the new presidential house in 1919 under the presidency of the General Rafael López Gutiérrez who was the first person to live in the new house. The following Honduran leaders lived in this house: General Vicente Tosta Carrasco, Doctor Miguel Paz Barahona, Doctor Vicente Mejía Colindres, Doctor and General Tiburcio Carias Andino, Doctor Juan Manuel Gálvez Durón, Accountant Julio Lozano Díaz, the Military Triumvirate of 1956-1959, Doctor José Ramón Adolfo Villeda Morales, General Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano, Lawyer Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, General Policarpo Juan Paz García, Doctor Roberto Suazo Córdova, Engineer José Simón Azcona of the Hoyo. After 72 years of leaders living in this presidential house, and after the first two years of the administration of the Graduate Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, the presidential headquarters were moved to a modern building in the Governmental Civic Center on Miraflores Boulevard, next to the Palace of Justice. Callejas would order the restoration of the former presidential mansion, which would be urgent and costly, as the building had been given to the National Archive of Honduras (NAH) and a national museum, and the former presidential mansion had been elevated to the status of National Historical Heritage.

In the following two years of his government, the president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero would work in a six-story building where there were also the offices of the executive, presidential appointees, presidential advisers, the paymaster, information and governmental press, the secretariat hall events, the chamber of ministers and other units. While still bigger than the former presidential mansion, even this new building didn't fulfill the needs of the executive branch. In the new building Callejas received his successor, Doctor Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez, in 1994.

Current presidential residence

In 1998, the new constitutional president Engineer Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé was not satisfied with the building chosen by the ex president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero and decided to move the executive headquarters to a new building that was allocated for the Ministry of External Relations. The Palace José Cecilio del Valle, originally built in 1988, designed by the architect Jorge Luciano Durón Bustillo, was chosen as the new executive headquarters. Since then, the following Honduran leaders have lived in this building: Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé, Graduate Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest, gentleman José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the provisional government of the gentleman Roberto Michelleti Bain, the Graduate Porfirio Lobo Sosa, Lawyer Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, and the current leader of Honduras, Xiomara Castro.

Other presidential houses

Between 1852 and 1853 under the presidency of the General José Trinidad Cabins the city of Santa Rosa of Copán becomes the provisional capital of Honduras, and the building of the “National House” turns into presidential house. Later, in 1862 during the provisional presidency of entrepreneur Victoriano Castellanos Cortes, he chose two houses he owned and made them the headquarters of the Executive and Legislative branches. It was also the temporary capital in 1863 to repel the attack of the Guatemalan General José Rafael Career Turcios.
Between 1875 and 1876 in the city of Gracias, Lempira, the General José María Medina occupied a house of adobe with a wooden coffer ceiling and tile clay as its seat of government.

References

Report dated on 23 September 2007. Daily The Herald, Honduras.
Report dated on 14 May 2011. Daily The Press, Honduras.

Bibliography

Aguilar, Juan Manuel. "Brief Historical Review of the House of Government of Honduras" Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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 == History ==
-Since 1821 the first destined house for office and residence of the ruler of the State of Honduras, went the one of the '''City council of Comayagua''', here resolved  important decisions in the Honduras new age like nation, by space of some sixty years until moving  the capital definitively to [[Tegucigalpa]], by means of Decree No. 11 dated on 30 October 1880 in the government of the Doctor [[Marco Aurelio Soto]] “Reformer of the Republic” there also, in addition to the Executive, would move  the Judicial and Legislative headquarters, the real box and the university.
+=== 19th century ===
-First presidential house in the city of Tegucigalpa, was a wooden building of two plants built by Juan Judas Salavarría, situated to the cost south west of the Square of the Favour, where today find  the basses of the current Legislative Palace.
+[[File:Museo de Comayagua.jpg|thumb|What today functions as the anthropology museum of Comayagua served as the presidential house of Honduras in the 19th century.]]
+In 1821 the 'City Council of Comayagua' was the first official residence of the Honduran head of state. The location of the capital remained there for almost 60 years, until being moved to [[Tegucigalpa]], via Decree No. 11 on October 30, 1880.  Doctor [[Marco Aurelio Soto]], the “Reformer of the Republic”, also relocated the judicial and legislative headquarters, the federal reserve, and the state university to Tegucigalpa.
+The first presidential house in the city of Tegucigalpa was a two-story wooden building built by Juan Judas Salavarría, located on the south west side of Plaza de la Merced. Today it is the ground floor of the current Legislative Palace. The executive offices were housed on the second floor, where there were the offices of Mr. President Dr. Soto and the government Secretary General Dr. [[Ramón Rosa]] .
-Offices of the executive were lodged in the second plant, there would be the dispatch of the gentleman president Doctor Soto and the one of the general secretary of government Doctor [[Ramón Rosa]].
-In 1883 the new presidency of Honduras is the General [[Luis Bográn]], the one who estimate that the busy house by Soto was not of the all suitable, by what move the offices to another building, that was found to the right-handed of the living room of sessions of the National Congress, this real estate was of bases of stone and walls of construction of season and wide living rooms for the governmental administrative destinations decorated with the banner, pavilion, shields and paintings of the national heroes and a part allocated  for the policeman or presidential escort, that later would be the School of Capes and Sergeants.
+In 1883 the president of Honduras, the General [[Luis Bográn]], decided that the busy house by the Plaza de la Merced was not suitable enough, and moved the offices to another building, which was to the right of the session hall of the National Congress. This building had stone foundations, walls made out of [[adobe]], and wide living rooms for the governmental administration, decorated with the national banner, pavilion, shields, and paintings of the national heroes. It also had a part allocated for the guard or presidential escort, which would later become the School of Capes and Sergeants.
-In this house governed the presidents: General Luis Bogran Barahona, General Ponciano Leiva Madrid, General Sunday Vásquez Toruño, Doctor Polycarp Bonilla Vásquez, Engineer Terensio Sierra Romero, General Manuel Bonilla Chirinos, Doctor Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuéllar and Doctor Francisco Bertrand Barahona, the one who in his government would move again the governmental headquarters to a new building where today finds  the Central Bank of Honduras, there also worked the offices of national posts.
+The following Honduran presidents lived in this house: General [[Luis Bográn|Luis Bográn Barahona]], General [[Ponciano Leiva|Ponciano Leiva Madrid]], General [[Domingo Vásquez|Domingo Vásquez Toruño]], Doctor [[Policarpo Bonilla|Policarpo Bonilla Vásquez]], Engineer [[Terencio Sierra|Terencio Sierra Romero]], General [[Manuel Bonilla|Manuel Bonilla Chirinos]], Doctor Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuéllar and Doctor [[Francisco Bertrand|Francisco Bertrand Barahona]]. Doctor Francisco Bertrand Barahona would again move the governmental headquarters to a new building where today one finds the Central Bank of Honduras, and where there used to be the national post office.
+=== 20th century ===
-In 1914 the Honduran government of Bertrand Barahona purchased a property of the gentleman Jerónimo Zelaya, to a cost of 40,000.00 [[Honduran peso|Honduran Weights]], for edificar an own headquarters, the design of the building was him awarded to the Italian architect Augusto Bressani. The one who would build a palacete using the stones of the near quarries to Tegucigalpa. The façade has a classical design Victorian European, of two plants, runners, walls with torreones of surveillance, presidential dispatch extremely friendly and under a cúpula that carries in the peak a banner with the national flag. Aposentos, offices in the low plant a living room designated “blue living room” for receptions, recibidor of invited, living room of meetings known like “living room of the mirrors”, playground and cubicles for the presidential policeman, ceilings artesonado wooden and knit of clay, plastered and decorated with lamps of pieces of glass, the runners present statues brought of Italy, floors pavimentados with mosaics (baldosas) and ceramic made in the workshops Bellucci of Italy. This new presidential house, conclude  in 1919 under the presidency of the General Rafael López Gutiérrez and his first tenant in 1920, the following rulers in occupying it were: General Vicente Tosta Carrasco, Doctor Miguel Paz Barahona, Doctor Vicente Mejía Colindres, Doctor and General Tiburcio Carias Andean, Doctor Juan Manuel Gálvez, Accountant Julio Lozano Díaz, the Military Triumvirate of 1956-1959, Doctor Ramón Villeda Moral, General Oswaldo López Arellano, Lawyer Ramón Ernesto Cruz, General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, General Polycarp Paz García, Doctor Roberto Suazo Cordova, Engineer José Simón Azcona of the Hoyo, with 72 years of governmental service was presidential house of the two first years of the administration of the Graduate Rafael Leonardo Alleys, the one who would move the headquarters to a modern building in the Governmental Civic Centre, in the Boulevard Miraflores, contiguous to the '''Palace of Justice.''' Alleys would order the restoration of the Palacete those that would be urgent and costly, now the building is allocated to the [[National Archives of Honduras|National Archive of Honduras]] (ANH) and a national museum, elevated to '''National Historical Heritage'''.
-[[File:Casa_presidencial.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Maqueta Of the Palacete presidential of Honduras.]]
+[[File:Fachada del antiguo palacio presidencial de Honduras.jpg|thumb|Facade of the [[Old Presidential Palace of Honduras.|Old Presidential Residence of Honduras.]]]]
+In 1914 Honduras undertook development for a new seat of government. The Barahona administration purchased a parcel of land from Jerónimo Zelaya for 40,000 [[Honduran peso]]s. The Italian architect Augusto Bressani designed this new presidential mansion. It was a two-story stone building with a classical [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] façade, watchtowers, a presidential office, and a dome atop which flew the national flag. It also had apartments, offices on the ground floor called “blue living rooms” for receptions, a meeting room known as the “hall of mirrors”, a patio and cubicles for the presidential guard, ceilings with wood and clay tiling plastered and decorated with glass shard lamps, corridors lined with statues brought from Italy, and floors paved with [[mosaic]]s and ceramics made in the workshops of Bellucci in Italy. Construction finished on the new presidential house in 1919 under the presidency of the General Rafael López Gutiérrez who was the first person to live in the new house. The following Honduran leaders lived in this house: General [[Vicente Tosta|Vicente Tosta Carrasco]], Doctor [[Miguel Paz Barahona]], Doctor [[Vicente Mejía Colindres]], Doctor and General [[Tiburcio Carias Andino]], Doctor [[Juan Manuel Gálvez|Juan Manuel Gálvez Durón]], Accountant [[Julio Lozano Díaz]], the Military Triumvirate of 1956-1959, Doctor [[Ramón Villeda Morales|José Ramón Adolfo Villeda Morales]], General [[Oswaldo López Arellano|Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano]], Lawyer [[Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés]], General [[Juan Alberto Melgar Castro]], General [[Policarpo Paz García|Policarpo Juan Paz García]], Doctor [[Roberto Suazo Córdova]], Engineer José Simón Azcona of the Hoyo. After 72 years of leaders living in this presidential house, and after the first two years of the administration of the Graduate [[Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero]], the presidential headquarters were moved to a modern building in the Governmental Civic Center on Miraflores Boulevard, next to the '''Palace of Justice.''' Callejas would order the restoration of the former presidential mansion, which would be urgent and costly, as the building had been given to the [[National Archives of Honduras|National Archive of Honduras]] (NAH) and a national museum, and the former presidential mansion had been elevated to the status of '''National Historical Heritage'''.
-[[File:Plano_Palacete.JPG|thumb|200x200px|Flat of the palacete, ex Presidential House of Honduras.]]
-[[File:Government_Civic_Center_Tegucigalpa.jpg|thumb|200x200px|At the end the ex Presidential House of Honduras that occupy the president Rafael Leonardo alleys, situated in The Governmental Civic Centre, Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.]]
-In the following two years of his government, the president Rafael Leonardo Alleys, would manage in a real estate of six levels and conditioned for the offices of the executive, the designated presidential, presidential advisers, the pagaduría, information and governmental press, the office, living room of events, living room of sessions of ministers and other dependencies, although bigger that the palacete, this building did not fulfil with the comforts required. Like this it would receive it his successor the Doctor Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez in 1994.
+[[File:Plano Palacete.JPG|thumb|Flat of the Old presidential palace of Honduras.]]
-In 1998 the new constitutional president Engineer Carlos Roberto Floes Facussé, no satisfied with the building chosen by the ex president Alleys Romero, decided to move the headquarters of the executive to a new venue, that was allocated for the Ministry of External Relations, the Palace José Cecilio of the Valley, is an imponente building that began to build  in 1988 designed by the architect Jorge Luciano Durón Bustillo, this building has lodged to the Presidents of the Republic of Honduras, from Carlos Flores, Graduate Ricardo Mature Joest, gentleman José Manuel Zelaya Rosebushes, the provisional government of the gentleman Roberto Michelleti Bain, the Graduate Porfirio Wolf Sosa, until the current Lawyer Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado.
+[[File:Government Civic Center Tegucigalpa.jpg|thumb|At the end the ex Presidential House of Honduras that occupy the president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, situated in The Governmental Civic Centre, Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.]]
+In the following two years of his government, the president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero would work in a six-story building where there were also the offices of the executive, presidential appointees, presidential advisers, the paymaster, information and governmental press, the secretariat hall events, the chamber of ministers and other units. While still bigger than the former presidential mansion, even this new building didn't fulfill the needs of the executive branch. In the new building Callejas received his successor, Doctor [[Carlos Roberto Reina|Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez]], in 1994.
+== Current presidential residence ==
+In 1998, the new constitutional president Engineer [[Carlos Roberto Flores|Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé]] was not satisfied with the building chosen by the ex president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero and decided to move the executive headquarters to a new building that was allocated for the Ministry of External Relations. The Palace José Cecilio del Valle, originally built in 1988, designed by the architect Jorge Luciano Durón Bustillo, was chosen as the new executive headquarters. Since then, the following Honduran leaders have lived in this building: Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé, Graduate [[Ricardo Maduro|Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest]], gentleman [[Manuel Zelaya|José Manuel Zelaya Rosales]], the provisional government of the gentleman [[Roberto Micheletti|Roberto Michelleti Bain]], the Graduate [[Porfirio Lobo Sosa]], Lawyer [[Juan Orlando Hernández|Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado]], and the current leader of Honduras, [[Xiomara Castro]].
 == Other presidential houses ==
-* Between 1852 and 1853 under the presidency of the General [[José Trinidad Cabañas|José Trinidad Cabins]] the city of [[Santa Rosa de Copán|Santa Rosa of Copán]] turns into provisional capital of the state, the building of the “National House” turns into presidential house. Later, in 1862 during the provisional presidency of the employer Spanish Victorian gentleman Cortés, this chose two houses of his property, for the destinations of the so much Executive offices as of the Legislative Assembly. And finally it was capital also provisoriamente in 1863 to repel the attack of the Guatemalan General José Rafael Career Turcios.
+* Between 1852 and 1853 under the presidency of the General [[José Trinidad Cabañas|José Trinidad Cabins]] the city of [[Santa Rosa de Copán|Santa Rosa of Copán]] becomes the provisional capital of Honduras, and the building of the “National House” turns into presidential house. Later, in 1862 during the provisional presidency of entrepreneur [[Victoriano Castellanos|Victoriano Castellanos Cortes]], he chose two houses he owned and made them the headquarters of the Executive and Legislative branches. It was also the temporary capital in 1863 to repel the attack of the Guatemalan General [[Rafael Carrera|José Rafael Career Turcios]].
-* Between 1875 and 1876 in the city of Thank you, department of Lempira the General [[José María Medina]], occupy a casona of season and ceiling of artesón wooden and knit of clay like his headquarters of government.
+* Between 1875 and 1876 in the city of [[Gracias]], [[Lempira Department|Lempira]], the General [[José María Medina]] occupied a house of adobe with a wooden coffer ceiling and tile clay as its seat of government.
 == See also ==
+[[File:Tegucigalpa Presidential Palace.jpg|thumb|The old Presidential Palace during the 80s.]]
+* [[National historical monuments of Honduras]]
 * [[Executive branch of the government of Honduras]]
 * [[President of Honduras]]
 * [[First Lady of Honduras]]
+* {{portal-inline|Honduras}}
 == References ==
-* Report dated in 23 September 2007. Daily The Herald, Honduras.
+* Report dated on 23 September 2007. Daily The Herald, Honduras.
-* Report dated in 14 May 2011. Daily The Press, Honduras.
+* Report dated on 14 May 2011. Daily The Press, Honduras.
 == Bibliography ==
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+[[Category:Government buildings in Honduras]]
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