House of Miguel de Aguinaga

House of Miguel de Aguinaga in Santa Fe de Antioquia preserves a domestic face of late colonial power at the moment it began to fracture. Its late 18th c. stone doorway—carved with baroque curves and crisp geometric motifs—announces a residence tied to Don Miguel de Aguinaga, governor of Antioquia and a key figure in the Supreme Junta of 1810. The house is remembered less for grandeur than for what it embodies: how civic authority, Creole identity, and early revolutionary ideas took shape in the everyday architecture of the town.