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Retiro Train Station

Retiro train Station was inaugurated in 1915 with eight platforms of 35 meters long and six of 250. There were 13 windows to sell tickets and it also had a dining room for one hundred people, a confectionery for 500 and six bathrooms, among other amenities. It was the most important construction carried out in Latin America. Its interiors were covered in stone, with majolica and light fixtures. Except for lime, sand and water, everything was brought from Europe: locomotives, wagons, bridges, station accessories, bricks and coal. It immediately became a reference point in South America. Five hundred trains departed and arrived per day. The direction of the project was left in the hands of Eustace L. Conder, an Englishman who had lived in Rosario, Argentina since 1888. Through an advertisement that he had published in the London newspapers, Conder called for a background competition to appoint an architect. Among 120 applicants, Sidney George Follet, who had trained in Edinburgh, was chosen. In Buenos Aires he would continue his professional work and would leave his mark on several buildings designed in the Buenos Aires city.