The Guinle family's 1913 French palace inside Parque Guinle, now the governor's official residence.
Landmark buildingThe Palácio Laranjeiras sits inside Parque Guinle, the landscaped park off Rua Paulo César de Andrade, and serves as the official residence of the governor of Rio de Janeiro state. Built between 1909 and 1913 for the industrialist Eduardo Guinle, it is one of the most complete Belle Époque interiors in Brazil — marble, onyx, oak paneling and Belgian parquet, behind a French eclectic facade.
The palace is the centerpiece of the same Guinle estate that produced the Parque Guinle residential ensemble, the Lúcio Costa-designed apartment blocks at the park's edge. Together they make this pocket of Laranjeiras one of the most architecturally significant residential addresses in the city.
Address: Rua Paulo César de Andrade 407 (Parque Guinle), Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro
Eduardo Guinle commissioned the palace as a family residence at the height of the Guinle fortune, to a project by the architect Armando da Silva Telles; records of the era also associate Joseph Gire, architect of the Copacabana Palace, with the design. It was completed in 1913 and lived in by the family for decades.
The federal government later acquired it to lodge visiting heads of state, and after the 1975 merger of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro states it passed to the state government as the governor's official residence — a role it still performs.
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