HOUSE OF EVARISTO CARRIEGO

Honduras 3784
Tel. 4963-2194
Open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Holidays: January

Jorge Luis Borges maintained that "Carriego is... one of his own characters. The suburb gave life to Carriego, and is in turn recreated by him". According to José Clemente, this poet captured in his verses "the neighborhood of Palermo, with its quiet afternoons, poor dress-makers, ruffians with carnations in their lapels hanging out on street corners, tenement houses.". The author of "Misas herejes" (Heretical Masses) and "Poemas Póstumos" (Posthumous Poems) lived from childhood in Palermo. He was born in Paraná, on May 7, 1883 (baptized with the name of Evaristo Francisco Estanislao). His family first settled in La Plata (his father was a Notary Public), and later in Palermo, in a house on Berutti street. After moving twice, the family finally settled permanently at Honduras 84 (now 3784), that has become the "Evaristo Carriego Museum House.
The hall, drawing-room, bed-rooms, yard and upstairs room made up the house. In one of the halls there is a painting of the poet made by Jorge Bermúdez, and restored by José María Mieravilla, founder of the Association of Friends of Evaristo Carriegos house in 1975. There is also a drawing of the poet and another of his mother made by Mieravilla. Carriego died prematurely at the age of 29, on October 13, 1912. In 1937, the SADE (Argentine Writers' Association) engraved a plate with the following inscription : "On the 25th anniversary of his death, to the poet that ennobled the suffering of simple people". The house currently functions as a public library run by the government of the City of Buenos Aires.