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neighborhood, on a parcel bounded on the north by Vilá Mayo, the west by Calle Manuel RodrĂguez Serra, and the south by Calle Wilson. It is a roughly square two-story building, with adobe-colored concrete walls and a flat roof. Windows and doorways are sheltered by concrete canopies topped by clay
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