The work was promoted by Juan Sisto, who emigrated to Havana and who, together with his brothers, obtained a great fortune for owning of one of the most important department stores in the city: “Fin de siglo”.
It is a suburban villa with a large garden of exotic species, a monumental entrance and an impressive lookout tower. The house conforms to the typology of the "casa de indianos" and was constructed as a three-storey building.
The ground floor of the house moved between the public and private spheres and included a vestibule, a hall for receiving visitors (reception room) and another more homely room (piano room), as well as a dining room with a terrace, connected to the kitchen via a lathe.
The first floor housed the bedrooms, a lounge with a gallery and an office, and from this floor, you can access the body of the tower, with two superimposed viewpoints, one closed and with benches, and the other one located under the body of the roof with a trapdoor leading to the outside. In this last space, there was a cistern containing water pumped from the well. The building also had a wood-fired boiler that provided hot water and heating for the whole house.
The local contribution to this neo-eclecticist house comes from the presence of sections of galleries running along the walls of the main floor, creating a curious play of juxtaposed asymmetrical shapes. All this, together with the sloping profile of the tower roof, which is enclosed with a zinc roof, gives the building an almost Victorian appearance.
