Paseo de la Reforma 104
Address on Paseo de la Reforma, the grand avenue of Mexico City. In Hayden Herrera’s Frida it is Frida and Diego Rivera’s first home as a married couple, in 1929.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frida | Hayden Herrera | setting | The newlyweds’ first home: a DĂaz-era French-gothic house, nearly unfurnished and crowded with Communist houseguests. |
Frida — Hayden Herrera (1983)
Source: Frida - A Biography of Frida Kahlo · Original · Readwise highlight
FRIDA AND DIEGO’S first home was a grand house built during the DĂaz dictatorship, No. 104 on the elegant Paseo de la Reforma; demonstrating both his passion for nativism and his love of contradiction, Rivera had placed pre-Columbian figures in the entranceway of the French-gothic-style façade.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Chapter 8, “Newlywed: The Tehuana Frida”, opens here. Frida recalls that, after a fight at their wedding party, Rivera came to fetch her a few days later and “took me to the house at Reforma 104”. The house had barely any furniture and was shared with David Alfaro Siqueiros, his wife and two other Communists; it is the backdrop to the autumn of 1929, when Rivera was expelled from the Communist Party.
- Why it matters: It is the first setting of the marriage, and its mix of pre-Columbian figures on a European façade sums up Rivera’s contradictions. The chapter’s account of their early married life is built around it.
- Real vs. fictional: Real address. ⚠️ The pin is today’s No. 104; the book does not say whether the house still stands.