was exactly at the corner of the Cañadilla, now Independence Avenue, with Professor Alberto Zañartu Street, Alley when it was called the Pantheon, where the historic entrance to the cemetery on Avenida La Paz and around which debuted their first home the famous restaurant "Remove Punishment" in the old neighborhood of San Jose Hospital.
was a beautiful house with a corner pillar, like many colonial homes were in the Chimba Santiago and elsewhere in the oldest. Had it not been demolished by the conspiracy of time, nature and the human hand, might have been declared a Historical Monument National, the way we do happen to hit another house very similar , located in Recoleta with Antonia Lopez de Bello, to which we have recently dedicated text.
The magnificent house pillar of Independence was in our city since the early nineteenth century or earlier. Nobody knew. He had been host of an inn where the broken Chileans celebrated the first anniversary of the Republic, in this neighborhood that was full of inns and chinganas . The Feast of All Saints was a loud and joyous celebration in the neighborhood, I had this Cañadilla as Inn of the famous venue. Carlos Lavin chose this beautiful construction put in the form of drawing on the cover of his book "The Chimba" published by Editorial Zig-Zag in 1947, we have reproduced it here.
We believe that this photo also belong to the former Inn of the Cañadilla, but it turned into a grocery store at the time of Independence Avenue was paved, fairly.
The house survived even the number of demolitions that took place around, then that many of these recreation centers and taverns were subject to the rules of a law of 1832 which, although served to make room for new buildings institutional symbols today on this side of town (like San Jose Hospital and Medical School, for instance), others interpret it as just one more of the government's desperate attempts to stop the crime, vice and crime. Measures such as these were finished, in fact, put into semi-ban demonstrations of our urban folklore, including the slum cuecas and chinganas of the time. Last
Chinganera his era as a tavern, the house-pillar of Independence became a grocery store. Graced this sector of the capital until well into the twentieth century, but changed owners and turns.
In general, the second placed work as residential and the first floor as commercial space, since the concept of the house-pillars often uses this division between the two levels.
Photo published by Carlos Lavin in 1947, showing the corner of Independence Union (now Professor Zañartu) with the old building of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile in the background. The latter building was destroyed the following year by a fire.
By 1870 is paved several avenues of Santiago to avoid the unbearable winter neighborhood with the elegance of cobbled from "huevillos stones" as they were called by its convex shape. The former Cañadilla, renamed after Buenos Aires Street and After Independence, it was not the exception, we believe, there is a photograph that records the process of paving in front of the house-pillar. Also, we have reproduced here.
The house was disappearing in the twentieth century. Was still used in private hands after the year 1950, but the story that follows in the following decades seems somewhat uncertain. Perhaps earthquakes gave some little help to deterioration over the centuries. The last surviving remnants of the former Inn of the Cañadilla were no longer recognizable, or even see his wonderful column corner. The old adobe walls were demolished and on the land the City of Independence built on the same corner, the seat of the Municipal Library.
In Santiago there are very few examples of colonial houses, pillars, unfortunately, so the disappearance of the former Inn of the Cañadilla is an especially painful and irrecoverable loss for this city.
Works running the City of Independence on the ground that once housed the old house-pillar of Independence. View from the Street Professor Zañartu. Independence Public Library is already built and operational in one place.
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