In April 1911, an adobe building a few yards away from Marker #1 where Francisco Madero set up his headquarters served as the provisional capital of Mexico. The small white obelisk is the original monument that marked the boundary between Mexico and the United States. The famous photograph showing the leaders of the revolution—Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco and Gustavo Madero, Pascual Orozco, Giuseppe Garibaldi—was shot here. The spartan decor inside the adobe building nicknamed “La Casita Gris” included a bed, a table, two paintings with biblical themes, a cross and a telephone installed by Bell Telephone Co. When the city of Juárez fell to the revolutionaries in May 10, 1911, the capital of Mexico was moved to the Juárez Municipal Building.
