In 1925 the remains of the cloister of S.Ilario were demolished to make space, the following year, for the the Rest Home of the Mutilato di Guerra based on a project of Prospero Sorgato, architect, and the engineer Domenico Pellizzi, with the co-operation of the surveyor Alfonso Borghi. The building was finished in 1927. The planimetric installation is L-shaped and of classic inspiration with an eclectic miscellany of architectural elements and materials like plasters, earthenware tiles and marbles. The designer didn't keep himself from using pillars, columns, mouldings, balconies, shelves, trabeations, arched windows and ashlars in the perspective of those years, directed toward the construction of buildings with social and public value with a rich and overloaded image. The entire area is sorrounded by a beautiful fence that circumscribes a poorly trimmed garden with flowerbeds and trees, that became a parking lot for the motor vehicles that belong to the offices. The main part, on the intersection between two branches, is three meters high while the lateral parts are two meters high; it is equipped with a basement with service spaces. It's distinguishing the monumental entrance that cuts off the angle of the building that overlooks the widening; this part of the facade turns out to be recently repainted and it is rather obvious the contrast compared to the rest of the building, that needs various interventions: fromm the replacement of doors and windows, window fixtures, general restoration of the facade's blanket, recleanings and painting. The raised entrance colonnade, has a bunch of paintings, in good state of conservation, that are dedicated to soldiers returning from war and it is marked by a wooden ceiling coffer, material that has the same quality as the door that relieves to the opening of the building. The little entrance porch, framed by a serliana, it's surmounted by a fake balcony with a round single lacet window with big stony eagles and another serliana on the third and final floor. the entire side of the building is closed by a unique motif of the stand out-cornice with upper trabeation. There are also some interesting details: starting from the lunettes on the windows of the main floor, full of low reliefs, friezes and spirals. Spirals, lion heads and soldiers with helmets alternate themselves in the keystones in the arches to symbolize the bravery of the soldiers and to pay homage for their sacrifices. The nationalistic sparks are used to produce rhetorical effects, glorify nationalistic values, the walls become teaching books for the native value for visitors and citizens. Beautiful gratings on the two windows in the ground floor, probably posthumous: they reproduce a tied link, allso visible in other buildings of the city, entirely outlined by variegated and geometric motifs and surmounted by a tangle of spirals with an emblem in the middle decorated by leaves and branches. The dominant shade of the building is straw-yellow. The entire ground floor has an even ashler not very sculptural, the rest of the wall is plastered. Part of the compartments that face the garden are accessible and occupied by office, but the part closed to the public is more significant.
(Sheet edited by the architect Rosaria Petrongari, december 2011)