Casa Hernández Suárez (La Linda Tapada)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Category: Architecture · Subcategory: Civil architecture · Year: 1943 · Authors: Tomás Machado y Méndez Fernández de Lugo

On top of a dilapidated house located on the outskirts of the city, on the road connecting Santa Cruz with La Laguna, the architect Tomás Machado designed in 1943 a new building with a clear regionalist (neo-Canarian) style for the Hernández Suárez family.

Maintaining the structure of the old building, the architect modified all the rooms and proposed a new entrance through a covered portico. The façade stands out for its stone cladding, both on the plinth and the corners, the small windows with turned balusters in pine wood and the central balcony with lattice enclosure. The ensemble is topped by a four-sided roof with Arabic tiles and pronounced eaves. On the façade facing the beautiful garden, four large semicircular arches can be seen. The pine woodwork in this house is noteworthy.

The building has an enclosing wall about four metres high, with a rumour that this wall was designed so that the owner of the property, a woman apparently of great beauty, could not be seen; hence the name "La Linda Tapada," by which the house is known.

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