Southern Pacific-Cotton Belt, Freight Agents Office, Union Pacific Milepost 174.00, 122 West Jefferson Avenue, Harlingen, Cameron County, TX

Significance: Located on the south side of Harlingen, Texas, the Southern Pacific (SP) Railroad's Freight Agent's Office is a one-story stucco building with a Spanish tile roof. Designed as a vernacular interpretation of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style in the offices of SP's chief engineer, the building originally was constructed by company bridge and building crews in 1927. The office is an intact, although altered, example of a common building type that was erected by SP during the early twentieth century.....
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1314
Survey number: HAER TX-73
Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1948 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1960 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1970 Subsequent Work