Chisos Basin Store, Castolon, Brewster County, TX
Summary
Significance: The Chisos Basin Store, built as a temporary structure in 1941 or early 1942, is constructed of adobe in a vaguely Spanish style, part of a larger complex with this architectural theme. After the war, two prefabricated Dallas huts were added to this building.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N10
Survey number: HABS TX-3399
Building/structure dates: 1941-1942 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1944- ca. 1945 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1944- ca. 1945 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1945
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Bennett, Lyle
Jones, Del
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cazares, Carlos Rugerio, field team
Zook, Barbara, project manager
Behrens, Tom, transmitter
Hoagland, Alison K, historian
Balbuena, Javier Palma, delineator
Location
Castolon, 29.66299, -103.35873
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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