His works have not fared well. The Gran Teatro Nacional was demolished in 1901, to extend and widen the , and the Plaza de Volador was destroyed by a fire in 1870. The current Tampico Cathedral is a restoration. The central nave of his original structure collapsed in 1917, and one of its towers was destroyed by lightning in 1922. An aqueduct in Puebla survived until the earthquake of 2017. One of his few remaining original works is the cupola at Santa Teresa la Antigua, a former convent which is now an art center. It was a replacement for the original, which had been toppled by an earthquake in 1845.