"[1] The building would hold the congressional chambers of the deputies and senators, but the project was not finished due to the Mexican Revolution.

Porfirio Díaz appointed a French architect, Émile Bénard to design and construct the structure, a neoclassical design with "characteristic touches of the French renaissance,"[2] showing government officials' aim to demonstrate Mexico's rightful place as an advanced nation.

[1] The internal structure was made of iron, and rather than using local Mexican materials in the stone façade, the design called for Italian marble and Norwegian granite.

[1] The Díaz regime was ousted in May 1911, but President Francisco I. Madero continued the project until his murder in 1913.

[4][5] Mexican sculptor Oliverio Martínez designed four stone sculpture groups for the monument,[6] with Francisco Zúñiga as one of his assistants.