{"id":4239,"date":"2013-04-10T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2013-04-10T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:05:05","slug":"498-asociacion-espanola-de-socorros-mutuos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4239","title":{"rendered":"498. asociaci\u00f3n espa\u00f1ola de socorros mutuos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201012A40.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Balvanera, ex-Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Socorros Mutuos\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3507\">A favorite photo<\/a> from the <strong><em>Colecci\u00f3n Witcomb<\/em><\/strong> shows quite a different Recoleta Cemetery than the one that can be visited today. A few fa\u00e7ades &amp; domes remain to provide orientation, but sadly what was likely the largest mausoleum of that time no longer exists:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/Witcomb01b.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Colecci\u00f3n Witcomb\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its identity remained uncertain until the following clip appeared in the excellent collection of images curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/argentinavintage.tumblr.com\/\">Argentina Vintage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/AsocEspSM.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Pante\u00f3n de la Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Socorros Mutuos\" width=\"328\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just what I&#8217;d been looking for! A bit of research &amp; a similar photo can be found in society magazine <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bne.es\/es\/Catalogos\/HemerotecaDigital\/\">Caras y Caretas<\/a><\/em> for Columbus Day, <em>D\u00eda de la Raza<\/em>, <em>D\u00eda de la Hispanidad<\/em>&#8230; a.k.a. October 12th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As self-help organizations grew along with immigration, so did the need for burial space. The <em>Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Socorros Mutuos<\/em> moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3186\">Chacarita<\/a> in 1896, eventually selling their group pantheon in Recoleta. Although demolished today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cementeriochacarita.com.ar\/?p=797\"> the new mausoleum<\/a> by architect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=77\">Alejandro Christophersen<\/a> proved to be even more luxurious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201207B14.jpg\" alt=\"Chacarita Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Socorros Mutuos, Alejandro Christophersen\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite photo from the Colecci\u00f3n Witcomb shows quite a different Recoleta Cemetery than the one that can be visited today. A few fa\u00e7ades &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4239\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">498. asociaci\u00f3n espa\u00f1ola de socorros mutuos<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","category-history","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}