[3] The French renaissance palace was covered in over 300,000 glazed, multi-color terra cotta tiles imported from the British ceramics maker, Royal Doulton.

[5] The palace still houses a number of AySA offices, Historic Archives and a small water works museum.

[4] The building's entrance is graced by two caryatids, and the property, by landscaped gardens that includes a bust created by Norwegian sculptor Olaf Boye in honor of engineer Guillermo Villanueva, the first Director of the Buenos Aires Water Supply and Drainage Company Limited, the then British-owned municipal water works inaugurated in 1869.

[8] Established in 1873, this is the only Archive containing complete and specific information about emblematic buildings and water supply planning of Buenos Aires.

[7] This archive is composed by three main divisions:[9] The building figures prominently in the book Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez.