Tigre Club

The club, built next to the Tigre Hotel (demolished in 1940), was financed by Ernesto Tornquist and was designed by the architects Pablo Pater, Luis Dubois and the engineer Emilio Mitre (son of the former President of Argentina, Bartolomé Mitre);[1] it was opened on 13 January 1912.

Like the hotel nearby opened in 1890, the Tigre Club soon became an important meeting place for the rich and famous.

The main saloon on the first floor has frescoes by the Spanish artist Julio Vila y Prades (1875-1930), the staircases are of marble and there are Venetian mirrors and French chandeliers.

The closing of the casino and the international crisis brought about a considerable loss of visitors.

After the demolition of the Tigre Hotel in 1940, the club continued to function as a restaurant with live shows but it never recovered its former glory.