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In 1928, upon his arrival in Caracas from Bogotá, Charles Lindbergh was honored in the Caracas Country Club, a luxurious mansion surrounded by golf courses built on the old Hacienda Blandín coffee plantation. Among its most notable features are: its location on a natural terrace overlooking the valley of Chacao, its stately architec-ture integrated into the landscape of the Hacienda House and its golf courses at the foot of the Ávila, as well as its scenic and landscape value in the city. Wendehack, famous for designing country clubs in the United States, designed this neo-Hispanic style house, taking the virtues of the old Blandín House into account. Made up of a series of volumes configuring courtyards, the building was placed and oriented on the same site of the old house; the great hall was placed in an east-west direction, like its predecessor; and like in the Blandín Hacienda, a symmetric gallery was designed, with a view to the pond south of the old drying yard. Likewise, the new floor plan was conceived around the old house’s colonial courtyard, organized from the existing symmetry axes, with the dependencies articulated around the courtyard. Carlos Guinand Sandoz was in charge of the construction, who solved much of its architecture and made fundamental contributions to its final appearance. Inaugurated in 1930, this work is one of the best of its kind in Venezuela.
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