The present article is dedicated to recover the memory of the old mansions built in the region of Luz Railway Station, from the beginning of the second half of the 19th Century onwards. It was around that time that the region became São Paulo elite's first residential neighbourhood, concentrating mansions that expressed the local elaborations of architectural Neo-classicism and Eclecticism. One intends to approach the interpretation processes that characterised such architectural production.
Architecture; Neoclassicism; Eclecticism; Mansions; Luz; São Paulo
