[1][2] This mansion was built as a gift for Borda's wife of 16 years, Teresa Verdugo y Aragonés and it was intended to rival that of Hernán Cortés and his descendants.

[3] Over the centuries, the mansion was fragmented and most of it demolished, leaving today five plots, four of which contain the original façade and double balcony.

[3] The building on 28 Bolivar street which houses the Hotel Coliseo has an early 20th-century façade, but the lower inner part is original of the Casa Borda.

At the beginning of the 20th century, number 33 on Madero street was home to the Salón Rojo, one of the first movie houses in the city.

It housed the Harem Baths in the first part of the 20th century, remaining as a witness a tile panel representing Neptune on the stables court.