Born in Valparaíso in 1873, the architect Esteban Orlando Harrington is
the author of many remarkable buildings of the city of which some are still visible today: in Playa Ancha, avenida Gran Bretaña
and pasaje Harrington
, you can find his superb houses of english style; great hotels carry its signature, like Reina Victoria
plaza Sotomayor or the old Hotel Royal
, 1025 Esmeralda street; another building, the Punta de Diamante
, is standing at the crossing
of Blanco and Errazuriz streets. Harrington died tragically grabbed by a tram
in 1936, like another famous architect the Catalan Antoni Gaudí.
The house built about 1920 in Templeman street forms part of a whole of three residences; it constituted at the time one of the first residential projects intended for the middle class. Its restoration in 2007 preserved its style while giving it modern equipment of comfort and safety.