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of the city of

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. It is currently under the administration of the insurance company

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. It is located at 101/157

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and 1177/1199

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. It is the starting point of

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Avenue.

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The

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architect

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designed the building, which was built between 1919 and 1924.

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, p. 28 Its construction coincided with the real estate construction boom that the city of Lima had in the government of

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and with the construction of a whole series of

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buildings on the ''

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'' and ''Paseo Colón''. Its first denomination is due to the fact that it was built at the request of the ''Rimac Seguros'' insurance company and its second denomination, ''Casa Roosevelt'', due to the name of the avenue in which it is located. It was the first multi-family building built in Lima. It was owned by

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between 1939 and 1945. Here, the Otis elevator factory installed one of the first elevators in Lima. In 2007 the façade of the house was recovered by Arte Express and is currently owned by the

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Architecture

It has a

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. It has arcades,

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details,

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s and a series of individual mansards that finish off different bodies. It occupies a good part of the block in which it is located. It has a façade of 84 metres on Roosevelt avenue, and 70 metres on the ''Jirones'' Carabaya and Unión. It has three interior patios that allow it to capture daylight and function as natural ventilation devices. Some apartments on the first floor have direct access from the street. It has 69 apartments: 24 on the first two floors, and 45 on the last two.

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