The government house of the province of Entre Rios was declared a national monument in 1986.

In 1884, Entre Rios’ Governor, General Eduardo Racedo, entrusted the project of a government house that would centralize the Executive and Legislative Powers to the Chief of the Topographic Department, Bernardo Rigolli.

The government house, conceived as a European Palace, is crowned by a clock tower. The latter from the Province of Corrientes. The contractors in charge of producing the clock and the bells were Augusto Sedner and Ernesto Hoffmann.

Augusto Sedner, clockmaker, ordered the construction of the clock to Benedicto Schneger Sconnan, a German clockmaker; and later matched all the details of the mechanism and placed the complete work in the tower that was completely constructed under his command. Bocum, a German bell-maker, fabricated the bells.

The inauguration took place on May 1, 1887. It has the curiosity of repeating the time 3 minutes after having reproduced it for the first time. A person is in charge to give the clock a wind.

The government house stands out because of its scale, but also because of the artistic details it contains, with a predominance of an Italian renaissance style within the eclectic character of the whole building.