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Restored in the 1950's from the rubble of a 17th century hacienda by Italian sculptor, Georgio Belloli, this beautiful estate is a perfect blend of traditional baroque stonework combined with romanesque columns, terraced gardens, colonial Mexican architecture, and finished off with accents of folk art from both Mexico and India.
Owned by the Summers family since 1979, Carol and Joan Summers, both artists from California continued the restoration by by adding terraces overlooking the garden, constructing an art studio where they could work, and covered the inner courtyard to keep the torrential summer rains from flooding the lower parts of the house.They brought in stone columns from Michoacan, used traditional building methods adding boveda ceilings, and added several spectacularly carved fireplace mantels all contributing to the a
Legend has been passed down over the years that this property was used as the Paymaster house. This would be where local residents could bring their rock to be crushed and searched for silver. The paymaster would then payout coins in exchange for ore found in the rock.