It was Juan Ignacio de Ezcurra who ordered its construction around 1790 and in this humble residence, the gentle Encarnación, born on August 24, 1795, passed most of her childhood. Good family girl, she could not have another destiny except one of those who have money and power.
He was only 2 years old more than her, almost to the very day, but already he had heard the gun sound. It was in 1806, at the time of the English landing, when he had joined the Company of the Cadets of the Regiment of Migueletes to defend Buenos Aires. 
20 years old, he was at the head of the immense land of Laguna del Monte and had a great fortune. The young Encarnación and her parents were certainly not indifferent to that. She, anyway, understood very quickly what would be the destiny of Ortiz de Rozas, become thereafter Juan Manuel de Rosas (*), she married on March 16, 1813.
She knew very quickly too that he could need her if necessary. Thus, when the House of Deputies refused the exceptional powers to Rosas, and while he dashed off in the first expedition of the desert in 1833 to submit Indians of the South, she stayed in Buenos Aires to constantly inform him about the political situation evolution. 
Encarnación wrote one of the darkest pages of the history of Argentina to allow her husband to reach the supreme function.During his absence, she took the initiative, with Martín Santa Coloma and Ciriaco Cuitiño, chief of the police force, to set up a secret organization in order to fight Rosas opponents, the "Unitarists", by all the means. 
Known under the name of “Mazorca”, in connection with corn ear (*), this organization survived dead of Encarnación, on October 20, 1838 and continued its sad work to stand the authority of Juan Manuel Rosas self-proclaimed “tyrant” in 1842, and holder of full powers of the new Argentinian Confederation. 
The great man fell of his pedestal one day of 1852. Settlings of scores succeeded after executions: butchers of yesterday became gallows birds, and Rosas did not have any scruple to require asylum to Englishes he had fought a few years earlier.(*)Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793-1877) soldier and Argentinian politician (Federalistic). 1st leader of the Argentinian Confederation between 1835 and 1852.
(**)some historians support the thesis that in fact it is the contraction the 2 words “mas” “Horca” what means: more brackets…
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