House of Miguel de AguinagaCasa de Miguel de Aguinaga

This late 18th c. residence in Santa Fe de Antioquia preserves a domestic face of colonial authority at the moment it began to fracture. Its stone doorway, carved with baroque curves and crisp geometric motifs, signals a household associated with Don Miguel de Aguinaga, governor of Antioquia and a leading figure in the Supreme Junta of 1810. The building matters less for grandeur than for what it represents: how civic power, Creole identity, and early revolutionary ideas could be carried in the town’s everyday architecture.