This early 20th-century colonial mansion in the heart of Merida sat in ruins before restoration architects rebuilt it into a seven-room hotel in 2009, saving the original clay tile floors and wood-beamed ceilings wherever they’d survived. The house dates to the era when Yucatán’s henequen barons, made rich by the fiber’s export boom, filled Merida’s historic center with residences designed to show off their new fortunes.
Located two blocks from the grand Paseo de Montejo, Casa Lecanda now operates as an adults-only boutique property, and its restoration is often cited locally as one of the more thorough rescues of Merida’s colonial housing stock, alongside similar projects at other former haciendas across the Yucatán.