Havana's Galician immigrants paid for the building as a community center. Paul Belau, a Belgian who also designed the Presidential Palace, was the architect. It was built in 1914 around the original Teatro Tacón, which dated from 1838, and the infobox gives the opening as 1915. The article calls the addition Baroque Revival. The article says the Tacón hall received new stone facing, and it names Purdy and Henderson as builder. It does not say whether the Tacón was partly demolished or kept, and it says both.
Giuseppe Moretti and Geneva Mercer made white marble figures of charity, education, music and theater. The García Lorca Auditorium seats 1,500.
The national government owns it. It is home to the National Ballet of Cuba and has hosted the International Ballet Festival of Havana every two years since 1960.
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