The Dakota Carioca — Praia do Flamengo's tombado eclectic landmark.
About the building
Edifício Seabra in brief.
Edifício Seabra sits at Praia do Flamengo 88, twelve floors of eclectic façade with First-Renaissance European references that earned it the nickname Dakota Carioca — after the Dakota building in New York. The building was inaugurated in 1931 and is one of the defining residential pieces of pre-war Flamengo.
The interior plates are large for the era, the materials were largely imported — with one notable Brazilian-granite first, and the building has been continuously residential since delivery. Inventory is finite — multi-generational ownership and the building's tombado status mean resales surface intermittently, typically through specialist brokerages.
AddressPraia do Flamengo 88, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro — 22210-030
Distance to
What's around it.
Walk and drive times to the things that decide where you live in Rio — beach,
metro, airports, neighborhood anchors.
Aterro do Flamengo · Burle Marx park0 min · across avenue
Metrô Glória (L1)8 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport6 min by car
Galeão (GIG)24 min by car
Pão de Açúcar cable car12 min by car
Lasai · Botafogo gastronomic strip7 min by car
On the map
Edifício Seabra located.
Praia do Flamengo 88, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro — 22210-030
Construction began in 1930 and was completed the following year. The project was designed by Italian architect Mario Vodret and built by Portuguese comendador Gervásio dos Santos Seabra together with his wife, Assunta Grimaldi Seabra, who wanted the building to follow First-Renaissance European models. The construction company was J.A. Costa & Cia.
Bairros do Flamengo e de Botafogo, Enseada de Botafogo e o Morro do Pão de Açucar · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Much of the construction material was imported, but the Seabra was the first building in Rio to use Brazilian-produced granite — a sourcing decision that became a reference point for subsequent pre-war buildings on the same waterfront. The top three floors were retained by the Seabra family as a private residence.
Ressaca na Praia do Flamengo · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
In 1995 the Edifício Seabra was registered as municipal heritage by the prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro (tombamento). The Seabra family's upper-floor units were sold around 2011 for approximately R$ 7M, one of the most-cited heritage-stock transactions on Praia do Flamengo.
Castelinho do Flamengo, antiga residência do comendador Joaquim da Silva Cardoso, c.1918 · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Long-term focus given the 30-night minimum and tombado profile. Tenant base is corporate relocations, diplomatic staff and HNW Brazilians drawn to the heritage-and-bay-view ticket.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Família Seabra
Original commissioning owners — comendador Gervásio dos Santos Seabra and Assunta Grimaldi Seabra retained the top three floors as a private residence for generations; units were sold around 2011.
Long-tenured Flamengo cultural & professional owners
Multi-generational ownership across the building — Praia do Flamengo's pre-war stock has held a stable cultural-and-professional resident base since delivery.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
We currently have no listings inside Edifício Seabra. Inventory in this
building moves rarely and often off-portal. Tell us you're watching it —
we'll come to you the moment a unit becomes available.
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buildings like this never reaches a portal — send us your brief and we'll come back
with what's actually available.
