The cadastral map of Charles VI (1721) represents the first record of the existence of the residence of Alessandro Castelsampietro, possibly identifiable with the “Casa da Nobile” already indicated as completed in 1685. In 1742 Alessandro Castelsampietro sold the property to Carlo Giuseppe Balli, who had the building modernized. In 1764 Balli appointed the Pio Luogo di Loreto as his universal heir; the institution soon disposed of its properties in Cernusco, selling them to Antonio Greppi. Handed over to him on 14 September 1774, the “Casa da Nobile” remained in the family’s possession until 23 November 1836, when it was purchased by Giuseppe Scotti. A floor plan commissioned in 1844 from architect Giacomo Moraglia documents the original internal layout and the now-lost garden. Upon Scotti’s death, the building passed by testamentary bequest to the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan, which on 8 October 1873 sold it to the Municipality of Cernusco for 35,000 lire. In 1976 the municipal administration transferred the complex to the Uboldo Hospital of Cernusco; today both belong to the ASL of Melegnano. The complex, which was altered by a heavy renovation carried out in the 1980s, is arranged on a U-shaped plan. The transverse wing displays noble features such as a portico with three round arches supported by granite columns, originally opening onto the courtyard of honor. A nineteenth-century stone staircase with wrought-iron inserts leads to the piano nobile. The main hall and some side rooms retain coffered ceilings with tempera decorations of the passasotto type, attributable to embellishments commissioned by Balli between 1742 and 1759; the more modest decorative frescoes date from a later period. In the past, access to the building was through a seventeenth-century portal demolished in 1927 together with the surrounding wall to make room for a monument. Over its long history, the building also housed elementary school students, the Casa del Fascio, and, during the Second World War, evacuees—whose number in the town reached as many as four thousand. Text taken from: “Nel cuore di Cernusco sul Naviglio. Tre passeggiate nel centro storico” by Elisabetta Ferrario and Mauro Raimondi (Book Time – Libreria del Naviglio, 2016).