although its date of construction is unclear, there was a petition to the local government on 9 april 1895, by the builder joão gomes da silva guerra. the councilman boaventura rodrigues de sousa, proprietary owner of the land on "avenida da boavista" (referred to on 9 april) and may have been the reason for the monogram inscribed on the cornices. the building and landscaping was attributed to joel pereira, owing to boaventura rodrigues de sousa having many similar requirements for other buildings along the "praça gomes teixeira", including an example on the corner of "rua das carmelitas" of the same authorship whose used a monogram also inscribed with the owners acronyms. from an inventory elaborated by the " repartição de arborização e jardinagem" ("landscaping and gardening" division) of porto the site was populated with camélias japónicas (34), palmeiras spp. (10), rododendron (4), liriodendron tulipífera (2), tílias cordatas (2), tílias argentea (6), tílias tomentosas (2), sequóia and pitosporum.