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The
National
Academy
of
History
occupies
the
building
at
Balcarce
139,
on
the
site
where
the
hero
of
Independence,
General
Antonio
González
Balcarce,
was
born
and
where
the
National
Congress
was
built
between
1864
and
1905.
From
the
moment
it
established
its
headquarters
there,
the
Academy
became
custodian
of
the
session
premises
and
the
rooms
that
remained
standing
after
its
partial
demolition
that
occurred
between
1944
and
1946.
The
building,
built
between
1863
and
1864
by
The
architect
Jonás
Larguía,
at
the
time
of
its
inauguration,
looked
like
“austere
and
simple
located
on
Victoria
Street,
in
front
of
the
Plaza
de
Mayo,
with
its
façade
of
three
arches,
its
doors
with
elaborate
bars,
its
classic
front
and
its
colonial
atavisms
in
the
windows
and
in
the
lateral
bodies.”
Today,
the
hall
in
which
the
Academy
performs
its
solemn
ceremonies
remains
practically
the
same
as
it
was
when
the
fundamental
laws
of
the
Republic
were
enacted:
the
furniture
on
the
stage
is
the
original,
the
large
painted
portrait
of
Valentín
Alsina
by
Manzoni,
the
stenographers'
table,
the
benches
without
desks
on
which
many
of
the
country's
leading
men
sat
and
where
academics
sit
today;
the
lamps
with
their
harmonious
sconces,
the
decoration
of
the
galleries
and
the
old-pink
tone
of
the
walls.
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