The Academy was located in the Montesclaros Palace, in the west of the city, until a 1924 fire destroyed part of the premises and an important collection of models, documents, books, and artworks.

Notable individuals who served as instructors or studied at the institution include Mariano Barberán, Eduardo Barrón,[1] Alejandro Goicoechea, Emilio Herrera Linares, Alfredo Kindelán, José Ortiz Echagüe, Carlos Faraudo and Pedro Vives Vich.

Its establishment was among the key objectives of a series of reforms initiated by General Engineer José Urrutia de las Casas and approved by Charles IV.

In 1820, its members aligned with the liberal cause; in 1823, facing the advancing forces of the Duke of Angoulême, they moved to Granada, later continuing to Málaga to escape the threat posed by the troops of the Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis.

The following year, on April 23, 1824, King Ferdinand VII issued another order, establishing the General Military College in Segovia to replace the defunct academy.

Engineer Commander Federico Vázquez Landa oversaw the work, designing a pavilion modeled after the architectural style of the papal palaces in Avignon and reconstructing a section of the city wall with certain Mudéjar-influenced features.

The proposal involved removing the mezzanine beneath the roof to create taller rooms and adjusting the enclosure wall to feature vertically proportioned windows.

Captain Ramón Valcárcel López-Espila adopted a historicist approach with classical tendencies, incorporating various lintel designs, simulated ashlar masonry, giant pilasters, balustrades, and a newly proportioned tower.

Its updated design was comparable in style to prominent civil institutions in Guadalajara, as well as to the architectural approaches employed by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco in projects commissioned by the Duchess of Sevillano.

On the day following the fire, the President of the Council of Ministers, Miguel Primo de Rivera, and other members of the Military Directory visited the site.

On Monday, at one o’clock in the afternoon, King Alfonso XIII arrived and expressed regret over the extensive damage, assuring the mayor that the burned building would be reconstructed.

Some classrooms were accommodated in the rooms of the Palace of Antonio de Mendoza, which at that time housed the Provincial Council and the Secondary Education Institute.

Meanwhile, the Infantry Academy occupied facilities belonging to the Foundation of San Diego de Alcalá in Guadalajara while its original location in Toledo underwent reconstruction.