[1] According to oral tradition, in 1651 an Angolan slave painted an image of the crucified Jesus Christ in a brotherhood of his caste in the Pachacamilla neighbourhood, where this street extends.

Given this, the site was acquired by the Biscayan captain Sebastián de Antuñano y Rivas who erected a temple for the veneration of the Holy Christ of Miracles as he began to be called.

Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name: At the end of the 19th century, the road housed the home of Miguel Grau, who died during the War of the Pacific.

[9] The Edificio Santo Toribio was built in the street's intersection with the Jirón Rufino Torrico in 1923 by Fred T. Ley & Cía, an American company.

The three-storey, 925.30 m2 work is part of the set of real estate projects undertaken by the Archbishop of Lima, Emilio Lissón, in the 1920s in order to strengthen the economic activities of the archdiocese.