Built in 1668 and 1698 by Mathias Rodrigues da Silva,[1] it was erected using the rammed earth technique and contains six rooms and two attics, which distinguishes it from other examples from the colonial period by having a gable roof (inclined planes for water drainage).

[2] The Casa do Sítio de Tatuapé was built in the center of a farm that already had a cattle corral and a small church ("ermida").

In May 1944, by charter, permission was granted to sell the property where the house is located to Faustina Quartim de Albuquerque Pacini, Elias' sister.

This citizen, on the advice of others, has paid and keeps the receipts in his possession, the taxes and fees charged by the City, to Tecelagem Textillia S.

[6] Between 1979 and 1980, under the responsibility of the Department of Historical Heritage (DPH), together with the Paulista Museum of USP, archaeological research was carried out and subsequently the property underwent restoration work.

Other aspects such as windows and doors were restored and, thanks to an archaeological intervention in the house to highlight characteristics of the period, the dirt floor was preserved in the rooms.

[3] It also opens to a main hall, through which one has access to other rooms or alcoves,[5] and it also has two attics that differ from other examples of the colonial period in that they have only a gable roof.

[5] Three decades after it was bought by Tecelagem Textilia, the Tatuapé House was acquired by the City Hall of the Municipality of São Paulo between 1979 and 1980, under the responsibility of the Department of Historical Heritage (DPH), through a project carried out with the Paulista Museum of USP.

[10] Archaeological research was conducted,[10] and another aspect of great historical relevance attributed to the Tatuapé House is the objects that were found in it during such work.

In other rooms, objects that are part of a collection of thousands of pieces found in prospecting sites in the city of São Paulo are displayed.

They are everyday objects that seek to rescue images of how the domestic habits of the locals were - as, for example, in the kitchens, with their iron, wood, or copper utensils.

Among the characteristics of this system was the inclusion of reinforced mortar at the crumbling points of the walls, culminating at the end of the revitalization.