17th-century facade alternates handmade Talavera tiles with red brick, a typically poblano style of decoration. The caricatures ("dolls") painted on the tiles lampoon the political enemies of the original owner, Agustín Ovando de Villavicencio. The story goes that the town big-wigs objected to his plan to build his home to three stories. When the powers in Mexico City (or Madrid) gave him the OK, he had tiles showing the objectors put on the house. DSCN2619