The Tristán del Pozo House, later the Ricketts House, is a Spanish-era

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house in

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, Peru. The house began construction in 1738 after being commissioned by its first owner, Domingo Carlos Tristán del Pozo, and has gone through several owners, being owned by

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since 1974.

History

The house was commissioned in 1738 to be the residence of its first owners, Domingo Carlos Tristán del Pozo and his wife Ana María Carazas, this period of the house's ownership was described by another member of the Tristán family,

Flora Tristan Flore Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso (7 April 1803 – 14 November 1844), better known as Flora Tristan, was a French-Peruvian writer and socialist activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argue ...

. The couple acquired the

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where the Andrés de Rosas and brothers House stood on June 24, 1736. Since then, the house has been owned by people such as José Joaquín Tristán; Camillian Bishop , as well as Colonel Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana,

Pío de Tristán Juan Pío Camilo de Tristán y Moscoso (July 11, 1773, Arequipa – August 24, 1859, Lima) was a Peruvian general and politician who served as the second President of South Peru from October 12, 1838 to February 23, 1839. He was nominally t ...

, etc. The house was acquired by

in 1974, and by 2014 hosted the bank's offices, an art gallery inaugurated in 2009, and a small museum.

Description

The house is located in San Francisco street, close to the ''Plaza de Armas'' of the city. It features an

style, arched structures and courtyards on the inside, and is one of the few buildings from the Spanish-era that have preserved all the different decorations and features that have adorned the place since its inception. The art gallery inside the building features works by artists, such as Carlos Baca-Flor, Jorge Vinatea Reinoso and

Teodoro Núñez Ureta Teodoro Núñez Ureta (1912–1988) was a Peruvian painter and a writer, noted for an original and distinctive style in Latin American art. His work often celebrated the life of the simple people of the Andes and the countryside, as distinct from ...

References

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History

Description

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