Casa Amarilla (in English: "Yellow House") was a railway station in the district of La Boca, Buenos Aires, built and operated by the

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. Its name was inspired on Irish Admiral William Brown's house, built in the same district and painted in yellow. Brown was one of the heroes of

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leading the

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History

In 1812, William Brown (who had arrived to the Río de la Plata three years later) bought a field in La Boca district at the South of Buenos Aires city. On those fields he built a house on Martín García Avenue. He moved there with his family in 1813 and the house would be soon nicknamed ''Casa Amarilla'' (''Yellow House'') because of its color. In 1857 the

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Legislature promulgated Law N° 147 that granted a concession to build a railway from Buenos Aires to Ensenada in La Plata Partido. The works were carried out by

(BA&EP) that made its inaugural trip on September 1, 1865, with a 5-km length. It started in Central Station, placed along with Casa Rosada, running over Paseo Colón through a

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until it deviated to Casa Amarilla before crossing Riachuelo to Ensenada. When the Buenos Aires Central Station was destroyed by fire in February 1897, the BA&EP moved its terminus to Venezuela station (placed on the junction of Paseo Colón and Venezuela) during a brief period of time before moving again to Casa Amarilla. In 1898 the BA&E was acquired by rival company Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway that took over the line. The BAGSR closed Casa Amarilla station to passengers in 1910, although the station continued operating freight services. Buenos Aires Casa Amarilla lou

With the closing of Casa Amarilla, the BAGSR set

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as its new terminus for passengers. In 1923 Dutch company Shell opened a

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depot on the fields where Casa Amarilla had been. The depot received and stored the tank cars sent from the company's refinery in

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. On those fields also operated a tram terminus and a potato market (opened in 1946), which was closed in the 1960s. A replica of Admiral Brown's house was built near to its original location, being opened on June 22, 1983, to commemorate the 206th anniversary of Brown's birth. The house currently hosts the Department of Naval Historic Studies and the "Instituto Browniano", and has a library and a room for multiple uses.

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