[1] After a study carried out by Mariano Paz Soldán, the construction of the building was arranged by architects Michele Trefogli and Maximiliano Mimey.

The front of the building reflected a severe architectural style, showing its reclusive purpose and trying to project an impregnable image, while the layout of the rooms inside included areas where prisoners worked during the day and cells where they were confined in the nights.

[2] The building existed for more than 100 years and characters such as President Augusto B. Leguía were imprisoned there, confined there after the coup that removed him from power, although he did not die in prison but in the Bellavista Naval Hospital.

The image was eventually moved to San Juan de Lurigancho, with the process beginning on September 23, 1964, and forgotten for a period until became the centre of attention again.

This time, the Peruvian press was able to locate its author, Rubén Darío Muñiz Calvo, by that point in Iquitos, who stated that he had simply reproduced a stamp gifted to him by the prison's chaplain.