The Lola Membrives Theater is one of the most traditional in our city.

It all started in 1914 and with another theater: the Smart Palace. This room was built at 1280 Corrientes Street (between Talcahuano and Libertad), where today is the Lola Membrives. It was modernized seven years later and, in 1924, it was acquired by Blanca Podestá (niece of Pepe Podestá) and her husband, Alberto Ballerini. But soon after he moved to the sidewalk and the building was empty. It was closed for two years, until the architect Alejandro Enquin redesigned it. He gave it an eclectic style that mixed Rococo with Neoclassicism, and had it ready to be reopened in 1927.

In its beginnings, it had capacity for a thousand spectators (500 stalls and 150, gatherings), low boxes, balcony and high, and 24 comfortable dressing rooms.

The current building presents the particular aesthetic provided by the civil engineer Alejandro Enquin. It is a ground floor building and an upper floor, with the room arranged in a horseshoe as in the classic theaters, with three box trays. The façade is of Italian neo-Renaissance style, with three windows with semi-circular arches on the upper floor, decorated with colorful stained glass windows.

The entrance hall is also ornately decorated, and the floors are covered in marble, as well as the old lockers (one of them without use). One of the side spaces was sold to a store selling music records. Going up side stairs you access the upper floor, which balcones the ground floor. The entire interior is covered in different types of marble, and the moldings and columns are painted in gold, as well as the original luminous chandeliers are preserved, providing a very charged and ostentatious atmosphere.

In the same way, the room has an illuminated dome, and the intense red color of the seats predominates, along with the aforementioned gilding, which here appears in different motifs that adorn the arches of the lateral boxes, like the Greek masks of the Comedy and Tragedy.