Palácio Mendonça
Henrique José Monteiro de Mendonça—who made his fortune with coffee in São Tomé and Príncipe—commissioned this palacete from the architect Ventura Terra in 1902, after work had already been designed between 1900 and 1902. The building was inaugurated in 1909, the same year it won the Prémio Valmor, one of Lisbon’s most closely watched prizes for residential architecture. Construction was carried out by João Pedro dos Santos and Rafael da Silva Castro, while the decorative and craft work brought together specialists including Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro for the ceramics and Jacob Lopes da Silva for the metalwork. For decades, the palace and its grounds stayed in the Mendonça family until the 1970s, when it was sold to an real-estate company. In 1990 it passed to Universidade Nova de Lisboa, followed by internal adaptation works by Manuel Tainha between 1990 and 1992. …
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