Mercado de los Carruajes was located on the old Paseo de Julio, a corridor with a tree-lined boulevard and electric lighting that connected with the Government House. There, there was a municipal ordinance that established that the buildings should have a uniform front of arches forming recesses in the buildings facing the promenade. During the presidency of Julio A. Roca, its construction was entrusted to the architect Emilio Agrelo, who also designed the Galerias Pacifico, and towards the end of the 19th century, the building began to be built. Finally, at the end of the year 1900, it was inaugurated including in its program from a stable, a forage deposit, an open-air riding school and an area for storing official uniforms, as well as a housing area for the personnel in charge of the horses.
Extensions and reforms in between, what happened was that the incorporation of the automobile to the official vehicle fleet ended up replacing the carriages, with the stables being transformed into garages. Therefore, since the second half of the 20th century, it served as a parking lot and mechanical workshop for part of the fleet of official cars. Later, the property was transferred to the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, who granted it in concession to a private society to carry out the transformation project into a gourmet fresh food and gastronomy retail market.
