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2 unusual facts about Colegio Williams


Colegio Williams

Around 1904-1905, the school changed to its current location, to what used to be the summer house of José Yves Limantour the Finance Minister of President Porfirio Díaz.

He has faced tough times at the school: the reduction of the school grounds (it at first occupied a whole block of the area, right now is just a third part of what it was in that time; ancient parts of the school are now being used by Telmex and a Comercial Mexicana supermarket), the construction of the Mixcoac Mexico City metro station in front of the school, the increase of the delinquency around the Mixcoac area, and the struggling with other Anglo schools.



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