Luigi Andreoni or Luis Andreoni (
Vercelli
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, Italy, October 7, 1853 –
Montevideo
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, May 20, 1936) was an Italian engineer and architect of outstanding performance in
Uruguay
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.
Biography
Educated in
Turin
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, he graduated in 1875 and arrived in Montevideo in 1876. He was a distinguished representative of historical eclecticism in Montevideo. Looking to Europe as a model, Andreoni enriched the city with the seal of the belle époque. Of note are
Ospedale Italiano Umberto I (1884-1890),
Club Uruguay
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(1888),
Buxareo Palace (about 1890) (current French Embassy), Theatre Stella d'Italia (1895) (now
Teatro La Gaviota
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) and
General Artigas Central Railway Station, opened in 1897.
He also had a collection of classical archeology, currently preserved in the
Palace Taranco.
Literature
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References
1853 births
1936 deaths
19th-century Italian architects
20th-century Italian architects
Uruguayan architects
Italian engineers
Italian expatriates in Uruguay
People from Vercelli
People from Montevideo
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