Palacete Rodríguez Quegles
Juan Rodríguez Quegles built the Palacete Rodríguez Quegles as a “gift of love” to his wife, María Teresa González Díaz—an ambition that explains the mansion’s lavish, modernist ambition. Work began in 1900, on a corner lot at Pérez Galdós and Perdomo streets that had belonged to the orchard of the old Monastery of the Concepción Bernarda. The design was assigned to Madrid architect Mariano Belmás Estrada, who advised Fernando Navarro y Navarro, the figure who ultimately took over and executed the project in an eclectic style that mixed foreign decorative tastes of the period’s bourgeois class. By 1972, changing fortunes left the heirs unable to maintain the house, and the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria bought it for use as a music conservatory, adapting the building to that purpose. …
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