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Casa Lamm
The Casa Lamm Cultural Center is the best known landmark in Colonia Roma. It was a house built in the early 20th century when Colonia Roma was a new neighborhood for the wealthy leaving the historic center of Mexico City. In the 1990s, the house was restored to open as a cultural center in 1994, with the aim of making the area a center for the visual arts. Today, it hosts numerous exhibits as well as offering classes, even degrees, in art and literature.
==History==
Casa Lamm was a project to rehabilitate one of the old mansions which was supported by local authorities. The house was originally constructed as part of Colonia Roma, which was a development in the late 19th and early 20th century on a former horse farm owned by Pedro Lascurain. While Lascurain was part of the project initially, Lewis Lamm took over in 1914, building houses for the wealthy moving out of the city center. The house itself was finished in 1911 situation on Alvaro Obregon Street #99 where it still stands. Like others built during this time, the architecture broke with that of the colonial period, heavily influenced by European, especially French, trends of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It initially was meant to be the residence of Lewis Lamm and his family, but he never lived there. He rented the property to the Marists, it became the Colegio Francés Jalisco, a school for boys. During the Cristero War, Lamm asked for the return of his property. He received it but in poor condition. Upon Lamm’s death in 1939, his widow sold the property to the García Collantes family who kept it until 1990, keeping the house from being demolished like many of the Colonia in the latter 20th century for redevelopment.
In 1993, restoration work on the house began although much of the house’s original elements were lost due to time and neglect. When restoration work was finished, it became the Casa Lamm Cultural Center in 1994.〔 When the Center opened there was no bookstore, or galleries and the workshops will still in progress. Beatriz Espejo inaugurated the space dedicated to literature, which as hosted names such as Guillermo Arreola, Álvaro Mutis and Octavio Paz . It was part of a larger project to make Colonia Roma a center for the visual arts in Mexico and attract more galleries, artists and others to set up shop here. The ongoing project has had mixed success. It has attracted the participation of entities such as the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, the Universidad de la Comunicación, Jomart, the Universidad Interamericana de México and the Casa de Francia, and various galleries have has full and profitable shows. However, security problems and lack of maintenance of public areas in the colonia by the city government have sometimes made it difficult to attract or keep artists and institutions.〔
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