. The Spanish-American republics . are few public buildingsworthy of note. The churches are simple and ordinary, and the onlyfeature that imparts a little gayety and picturesqueness to their mo-notonous stucco silhouettes is the blue, rose, and white Talavera tiles,or azulcjos, used on the roofs of the domes and towers. The oldSpanish custom-house facing the river is noticeable for its circularform, and because it is the only monument of the early colonial daysthat the city possesses. The great banks are all lodged in large andimposing edifices of no special architectural merits, except, perha
. The Spanish-American republics . are few public buildingsworthy of note. The churches are simple and ordinary, and the onlyfeature that imparts a little gayety and picturesqueness to their mo-notonous stucco silhouettes is the blue, rose, and white Talavera tiles,or azulcjos, used on the roofs of the domes and towers. The oldSpanish custom-house facing the river is noticeable for its circularform, and because it is the only monument of the early colonial daysthat the city possesses. The great banks are all lodged in large andimposing edifices of no special architectural merits, except, perhaps,the Banco de Carabassa, which is a good specimen of classical modern THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL. 287 Corinthian. By far the best buildings in the city are the school-houses, some of them being veritable palaces, as, for instance, the Es-cuela Sarmiento in the Calle Callao, the Normal School in the CalleCordoba, the Escuela Graduada de Ninas on the Plaza General La-val le, and, above all, the Escuela Petronila Rodriguez, occupied by. ESCUELA PETRONILA RODRIGUEZ. a pedagogic museumand the offices of theSuperior Council ofEducation. The in-terior of this buildingis commonplace andbadly distributed, but the grand facade and the end entrance are very fine specimens ofGerman Renaissance architecture enriched with caryatides and orna-ments of the usual cement and imitation stone, which cracks andchips even in the clement climate of Buenos Ayres. The build-ing, however, is of grand proportions and imposing aspect. TheEscuela Petronila Rodriguez is the only public institution of any kindthat I could discover in Buenos Ayres founded by private munifi-cence. It was built with a legacy bequeathed by the lady whose namethe establishment bears. The singularity of the case is very eloquent,and throws floods of light upon the benighted political, social, andeducational condition of the Argentines. In no city, except in someof those of North America, have more or larger fortunes been madewithin t
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