It is located in Northwest Ciudad de México. The building was constructed as a penitentiary, that is why it is communly known as El Palacio Negro de Lecumberri, which was inagurated in 1900 by Porfirio Díaz, which provided these services until 1976.

In 1823, the National Public General Archive was created, its services as an institution were not only meant to the use of the government, but also to everyone interested in consulting their heap. Nowadays, AGN shelters, preserves, and spreads historic national patrimony. It also helps the governamental files find organized and systematized for an efficient management and proper accountability.

In addition to bibliographic value, people go to the visits that explain and settle the building’s architectonical value, whose engineers were Antonio M. Anza and Miguel Quintana; it is a work of Antonio Torres Torija.