The building located at the intersection of Santo Domingo Street with Sotomayor was built in 1839 by the architects Jacinto Cueto and Juan de la Cruz Sotomayor.  The mansion, made of adobe, was severely damaged by the 2010 earthquake.  It is within the typical zone.

Most of the houses abandoned in the neighborhood after the 1973 coup d’état have gone to auction. However, as mentioned previously, there has not been an upturn in the area, since there is no public or municipal policy supporting a rebound in this citizen and political process that gave origin to Yungay District.

The houses have a diverse architecture, hence the wealth they possess: neo-Gothic, neo-Colonial, Classical, Medieval, Republican and neo-Romanesque, among others.

In the 1990s, at the start of the rehabilitation process implemented by Jaime Ravinet (the mayor at the time) and his alliance of parties, there was no modification of the non-residential structure of the Pinochet era, so the recovery of the housing space abandoned in the 1970s was not possible.

Through his municipal policy,  Jaime Ravinet made possible the sale of abandoned housing space, so thus began the construction of the first buildings in the old part of the city of Santiago.

This measure meant both for Yungay and Brasil District to see their population dwindle, as occurred during the Pinochet dictatorship. The inhabitants chose to move to the “future splendor” of new promoted communities such as Florida and Maipu. Thus, like the western sector of Santiago, the area began to disassociate itself from the discourse of its origins, moving into a process of depoliticization and non-participation in the city, for almost twenty years.

These properties were subleased and today, due to the process of growth of the district, many are leased informally, proliferating a tenement system that clusters numerous families in the same dwelling.

In spite all, the neighborhood has begun to slowly be repopulated and heritage housing to be recuperated. However, there is an absence of a comprehensive communitarian process among the inhabitants.