A Spanish colonial house built in 1785, the Mitre Museum (Museo Mitre) was home to Bartolomé Mitre, the sixth President of Argentina, from 1860 until his death in 1906. Today it is a historic house museum devoted to Argentine history and to Mitre's legacy, and the building is a national historic monument.
The house first appears in the historical record after the May Revolution of 1810, when it sheltered Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, the last Viceroy of the Río de la Plata. Mitre rented it in 1860 and lived here throughout his presidency from 1862 to 1868. That year a group of local citizens bought the house and gave it to him in recognition of his term in office and his work for national unity. The museum was founded in 1907.
La Nación, one of Argentina's oldest and most influential newspapers, was published here from its founding in 1870 until 1895. The museum suits visitors drawn to Argentine history and the people who shaped it.
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