Pollack commissioned a series of panels referring to the discovery of the Americas which were placed around the main hall, but due to their deteriorated state when the Cuban government decided to restore the mansion at a cost of 2 million dollars in the 1990s, were lost.

[4] The hall is large due to its proportions (approximately 15 metres (49 ft) long and 7.3 metres (24 ft) in width and height), the organ takes up one end and the balcony at half the height of the room, the other end; the iron grill leads to the portico, the main element of the facade facing the garden.

The central courtyard is exceptional for Cuban house architecture in the 20th century, due to its size and the fact that it is completely surrounded by a porticoed gallery, the columns of which are of different kinds of marble on both floors.

Pollack's family abandoned La Mansion and Cuba in 1960, they moved to Florida as political refugees of the Castro government.

[4] The mansion has been featured in Architectural Digest, Six Days in Havana by James A. Michener, in Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo's "Havana", as the cover picture for Michael Connors' book "Cuban Elegance", as the cover photo for "I Was Cuba: Treasures from the Ramiro Fernandez Collection" by Kevin Kwan, and is featured in dozens of other books celebrating Cuban architecture.