The building is distinguished by its facade, which is covered on three sides by blue and white colonial Talavera tiles from Puebla state.

It changed hands several times before being bought by the Sanborns brothers who expanded their soda fountain/drugstore business into one of the best-recognized restaurant chains in Mexico.

[1][2] Before 1793, there were two houses on this site, which were joined through the merger of two Criollo families of New Spain, when Graciana Suárez Peredo and the second Count del Valle de Orizaba married.

From the history of this property, being the owner Don Damián and seeing himself in financial difficulties, they find it necessary to sell this and the adjoining square to another gentleman named Diego Suárez de Peredo in the year 1596.

Don Luis was the son of the First Count of the Valley of Orizaba, Don Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberrucia, an outstanding character in the viceroyalty for his talent and education, reaching important positions in the government of New Spain, among which the Governor of Nueva Vizcaya and that of Governor and Captain General of the Philippine Islands stands out.

Its windows, balconies and doors are framed in carved stone and French porcelain crowns on the Callejón de la Condesa and Madero Street facades.

The fountain is surrounded by highly decorated columns and topped with more French porcelain crowns as well as a stained glass roof that was added in the 20th century.

According to chronicler and poet Salvador Novo, the torso in the center was later copied by Orozco in the work called Prometheus at Pomona College.

Near the end of the 19th century, the house lost 90 square meters on the north side, to make way for 5 de Mayo Street.

[9][11] In 1914, supporters of Porfirio Díaz held a banquet here in honor of Victoriano Huerta to celebrate the assassination of Francisco I. Madero after the Decena Trágica.

The original owner, Francisco-Sergio de Yturbe managed to regain possession of the house before government-hired workers were able to finish remodeling it.

A less important mural was painted by José Clemente Orozco in 1925 called Omnisciencia, solicited by his friend Francisco-Sergio (Paco) de Yturbe with the approval of the Sanborns brothers.