Background
Born in Cerea, Italy in 1882, he arrived in Argentina at age 2 with his father, Giuseppe Angelo, and his mother, Luigia Martini, who renamed him Enrique Ferrarese.
Born in Cerea, Italy in 1882, he arrived in Argentina at age 2 with his father, Giuseppe Angelo, and his mother, Luigia Martini, who renamed him Enrique Ferrarese.
Enrique founded the construction firm Ferrarese Hermanos & Compania The firm begun working mostly on façades, plaster details and ornamental finishing on other major projects such as the Bola de nieve (snowball) a large spherical structure on top of a building located in the intersection of Córdoba and Laprida. The warehouse of Ferrarese Hermanos & Compania was located at 1251 Callao Street.
The Bola de nieve building stands today as one of the architectural landmarks of Rosario.
Soon thereafter Ferrarese Hermanos & Compania went on to build family homes and a series of retail service stations for the Dutch oil company, Shell. One of the first major works was the construction of another iconic building in Rosario, the one known as the palacio "Louisiana Rosario", which will later become the birthplace of the legendary guerrilla warrior Ernesto Guevara, aka Che Guevara.
"Louisiana Rosario", is situated in the intersection of Urquiza and Entre Rios. Next in line came the Palacio Fuentes, a recognizable landmark and one of the first skyscrapers in South America.
Other projects carried out by Ferrarese Hermanos & Compania under the direction of Enrique Ferrarese were the "Club Rosarino de Pelota", the "Barrio Fisherton Golf Club", the tribune of "Newell"s Old Boys" stadium in Parque de la Independencia, which showcases the first flying roof (not sustained by columnar structures) in South America and the apartment building commissioned by Countess of Chateaubriand in Buenos Aires which was probably one of the last known buildings erected by the firm.
Enrique Ferrarese died in Rosario on January 1, 1968, at the age of 86.
