page_title: Mexico City administrative buildings
section_title: Edificio de Gobierno building
hierarchical_section_title: Mexico City administrative buildings / Edificio de Gobierno building
caption_attribution_description: Español: Imágenes sobre el Terremoto de México del 19 de septiembre de 1985.English: Images of Mexico City Earthquake, September 19, 1985.
context_page_description: The Mexico City administrative buildings are two buildings on the south side of the Zócalo in Mexico City divided by the avenue Avenida 20 de Noviembre. They house offices of the governing authority of Mexico City. The building to the west of 20 de Noviembre is the older one and has been the site of city administration since the Conquest. The one to the east is newer, built in the 20th century.
context_section_description: This building is next to the National Palace and the Supreme Court building. After demolition of the old colonial-period Portal de las Flores in 1935,  the current structure was built between 1941 and 1948 and designed to fit in with the rest of the architecture of the Zocalo, as well as to be symmetrical with the "old" Palace of the Ayuntamiento next door. The Portal de las Flores (Portal of the Flowers), named so either because its original owner's name was Flores, but since later it housed markets selling fresh flowers, vegetables and fruit from outlying areas, it is commonly held as the origin of the name This Portal was rebuilt in 1724 and remained the site of markets and stores until the 19th century. The 18th century building was demolished in 1935, helping to open up 20 de Noviembre Street and clearing way for the current building.
  The outside of the building has relatively sober decoration with windows framed in white stone, parapets with windows and square columns. The "mini-balconies" of the windows are done in wrought iron and the corners of the third floor have estipite columns. In 1985 this building suffered damages due the Mexico City earthquake and was remodeled and restructured. A plaque inside the building commemorate that works.
  The interior of the vestibule is simple dominated by the main stairwell. This stairwell contains two large murals depicted the history of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic period to just past the Revolution. Both were painted by Carlos Montuy in 1986 .
  When the current edifice was being built, they found the remains of the house of Doña Marina or La Malinche and that of the wife of treasurer Alonso de Estrada. Further down, they found a "tlachtli" or Aztec ball game field, a chacmool and other archeological finds.
caption: Building damaged after Mexico City 1985 earthquake.
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