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Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX
Summary
Significance: Building 88 was constructed around 1903 as a commissary. After the Battle of Matamoros in June 1913 the building was used to hold Mexican insurgents as prisoners. It has a long history of adaptive re-use, having been remodeled first as a guard house, and then for Texas Southmost College as a chemistry building, and then as an art building.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-90
Survey number: HABS TX-3278
Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000881
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Date
1904
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Brownsville (Tex.), 25.90175, -97.49748
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
