The congressman, senator, and presidential candidate Eduardo Chibás was living on the fourteenth-floor penthouse when he committed suicide in August 1951 on the air at CMQ Radio Station.

[citation needed] The construction of the building was promoted by José Antonio López Serrano, a publisher who ran La Moderna Poesía.

He was the son of Ana Luísa Serrano and José López Rodríguez, "Pote", a banker with ties to publishing.

In 1890 Pote married Ana Luísa Serrano, a wealthy widow who owned one of the best bookstores in Havana, La Moderna Poesía.

José López's fortune was due not only to his advantageous marriage to Ana Luísa but also from supporting the Cuban independence cause.

[1] Later, he would obtain from the Government of Gómez the concession for the construction of an iron bridge over the Almendares River connecting Calle Calzada with Miramar.

As the technology for riveting steel members was absent in Cuba, the frame of the López Serrano Building was welded in place and the reason for the high level of stiffness of the structure.

[5] There is a nickel-silver relief El Tiempo (‘Time’) by graphic designer Enrique García Cabrera on the elevator wall of the lobby.

Each apartment has access from the kitchen to what is called in Havana a "patio" (dark blue), this is an area equipped with a sink for doing laundry.

Every apartment was originally provided with modern amenities: hot and cold water, gas, radio, and telephone service.