One of the first residential buildings on Avenida Atlântica.
About the building
Edifício Lellis-São Paulo in brief.
Edifício Lellis-São Paulo was one of the first residential buildings on the Copacabana beachfront. Construction began in 1928 on the corner of Av. Atlântica and Rua Barão de Ipanema; the building was inaugurated in 1931 in neoclassical style — the refinement of the architectural detail is what historians cite when they call it the moment the avenue stopped being a stretch of sand and became an address.
The Lellis-São Paulo is a twin-building complex: the first at the Av. Atlântica corner, the second one block back at Rua Domingos Ferreira. Apartments are mid-sized for the avenue, with neoclassical bones and the kind of full-frontal Atlantic view that has drawn residents for nearly a century.
AddressAv. Atlântica × Rua Barão de Ipanema, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — 22011-001
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.
Praia de Copacabana (Posto 2)0 min · crosses avenue
Metrô Cardeal Arcoverde (L1)6 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport14 min by car
Galeão (GIG)30 min by car
Copacabana Palace · Cipriani5 min walk
Forte de Copacabana18 min walk
On the map
Edifício Lellis-São Paulo located.
Av. Atlântica × Rua Barão de Ipanema, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — 22011-001
Built by merchant Domingos Lellis as a residential investment on what was, in 1928, a still-experimental waterfront. The project was designed by Paulista architect Cristiano Stockler das Neves — a leading neoclassicist of the 1920s São Paulo school who would later serve as mayor of São Paulo — and built across 1928–1931.
Vista de Copacabana · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
The complex was originally delivered with eight floors. A ninth floor was added approximately a decade later, gaining a common terrace at the top of the building. The Lellis-São Paulo is the oldest residential building on Praia de Copacabana.
Obras na praia de Copacabana · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Dr. Rolando Monteiro — first rector of the Universidade do Distrito Federal (UDF), the institution that would become UERJ — was among the most-cited residents of the Lellis. The building has been continuously residential since delivery and is a recurring fixture of the Copa heritage-stock conversation.
Obras na praia de Copacabana 2 · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Rental yield · short-stay
What a unit earns.
Atlântica-frente 2BR. The 1931 heritage story photographs well — listings here convert faster than generic Copacabana stock at the same nightly band.
Nightly rateR$ 1,200 – R$ 3,600Low → high season
Avg occupancy74%12-month average
Gross yield8.4%On purchase price
Indicative estimates based on comparable short-stay units — not a guarantee of income or occupancy. Actual returns vary with unit, season and management.
Who's lived here
Notable residents.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Dr. Rolando Monteiro
First rector of the Universidade do Distrito Federal (UDF), the precursor to today's UERJ; the most-cited historical resident of the Lellis.
Carioca old-money families
Multi-generational ownership across the complex — Lellis-São Paulo has been an address-of-record on the avenue since 1931.
Available now
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