Cervantes' House was part of the wave of construction that filled the demand created by the sudden growth in population the Corte's relocation provoked.

The body of the dying man was taken to the lower floor of the house Cervantes lived in, where he expired.

From this documentation, thoroughly studied by es:Luis Astrana Marín, we know that instead of occupying the three houses joined to create the museum, his mother lived in one room and the rest of his household in another, above a tavern on the ground floor.[1]: Vol.

6, Chapter LXXIII Only women were living with him: his wife Catalina, his very religious ("beata") sister Magdalena, a seamstress for wealthy gentlemen,[2] his sister Andrea, also a seamstress, her illegitimate daughter Costanza, Cervantes' illegitimate daughter Isabel, and a maid named María.

There were suspicions that among them may have been some of the women in Cervantes' household, who were the only single adult wonen living in the building.