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MOINHO FLUMINENSE
MEMORY

THE CITY AND THE PORT

  1. Preamble

  2. Arrival of the ‘angelfish’

  3. Brazilwood

  4. Whale hunting

  5. Under the sign of gold

  6. City of mills

  7. French corsairs in the bay

  8. From castle to floodplain

  9. Between four hills

  10. Valongo, market of the enslaved

  12. Little Africa

  13. Crossing the port hills

  14. Bread yes, tapioca no: Europe in the tropics

  15. Open ports

  16. New settlers arrive

  17. The Gamboa district

  18. Sweeping urban modernization

  19. Revolution in spaces and customs

  20. The Vaccine Revolt

  21. New port for a new century

  22. Twilight of the port

  23. The 1960s

  24. Treasure to be preserved

  25. The 2000s: Porto Maravilha docklands upgrade

  26. What’s so special about Gamboa?

  27. Supplementary bibliography


THE MOINHO FLUMINENSE MILL: A HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

  1. The Moinho Fluminense mill seen through the lenses of leading photographers in Rio de Janeiro

  2. The Moinho Fluminense mill, heritage of Rio, symbol and icon of a neighborhood

  3. Industrialization: early days

  4. Downtown Rio de Janeiro: its cultural, environmental and landscape heritage

  5. Cassava bread to wheat loaves

  6. Architecture x technology

  7. Entrepreneur and builder: concept behind the Moinho Fluminense mill

  8. The Antonio Jannuzzi, Irmão & Cia. company and its development

  9. Changes along the way

  10. Avenida Central: a new thoroughfare to success

  11. Genealogy of a Business: From Gianelli & Cia to S.A. Moinho Fluminense

  12. The Moinho Fluminense Mill: Notable Example of Industrial Architecture

  14. Updates and Expansion: 1888 – 1908

  15. Fresh Breezes Blow through Gamboa: Port, Mill, and Plaza

  16. Growth and Modernization

  17. Under New Management: Bunge Group and an Ambitious Project

  18. The invisible World

  19. The legendary Phoenix

  20. Supplementary bibliography


PHOTO-ESSAY


ABOUT
Mark

Maria Pace Chiavari


Avenida Central: a new thoroughfare to success


The brightest and most fruitful time for the Jannuzzi business kept pace with the rise of a new business class. Good examples of this are commissions from entrepreneurs Eduardo Guinle and Cândido Gaffrée for building the electricity workshops of the Companhia Brasileira de Energia Elétrica on the Rua São Clemente and Rua Visconde de Sapucahy,37 and the construction of seventeen houses and the headquarters of the Fluminense Football Club in the Flamengo neighborhood. Commissioned by Cândido Gaffrée, this real estate venture paved the way for the Jannuzzi company to become involved in what author Paulo Santos defined as “the capital fact of this start of the century”: laying the broad lanes of the Avenida Central that cut through cramped downtown alleyways, inaugurated in 1904.38

This was when Antonio Jannuzzi was competing with famous architects and engineers, like Morales de los Rios, Francisco Oliveira Passos and Ludovico Berna. The most significant of the twelve buildings designed by the Jannuzzi company before this avenue was opened, are those commissioned by Eduardo Guinle, and the building designed as the company’s own technical offices, the first to be opened in this area.

Bearing witness to the high levels of competence attained by this construction company in terms of its work and the use of materials to decorate its façades, the Palácio das Docas de Santos was designed by engineer Ramos de Azevedo, born in São Paulo. Still standing on the Avenida Rio Branco, this old docks office building is today the headquarters of IPHAN.


37. This street was altered and renamed after the Marquês de Sapucaí, in the Cidade Nova district.
38. SANTOS, Paulo. Quatro séculos de arquitetura. Rio de Janeiro: IAB, 1981. p. 79.