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Baltimore Inner Harbor, Northwest branch of Patapsco River south of Pratt Street & between Light Street & Jones Falls, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Northwest branch of Patapsco River south of Pr...

Significance: The Inner Harbor, located at the heart of Baltimore, provided the foundation for the city's commercial economy in the late 18th and early 19th century. After the Great Fire of 1904, which destroy... More

Billie Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

Billie Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Billie Eaton House was built in the 1890s as a two-room house with open central passage. The persistence of traditional plan types exemplified in this dwelling is common in southwestern Tisho... More

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Came...

Significance: Cameron County Courthouse, designed by prominent San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres, in 1912, is the second Cameron County Courthouse building. It is notable for its academic architectural detai... More

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...

Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...

Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...

Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo Coun...

Significance: The Adams House is a good, late, example of a frame double pen (two-room) plan with open central hall, or "dogtrot," a folk house type indigenous to the rural South. Built in 1913, with a rear el... More

El Globo Chiquito, 1054 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

El Globo Chiquito, 1054 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron Count...

Significance: El Globo Chiquito (Laiseca Store) is an excellent example of a modest, late nineteenth-century wood frame store. Built ca. 1887, the store's simple but rare twin-gabled form is relieved by shutter... More

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Significance: In 1928 the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Company completed a new rail line along the Tombigbee River to connect the recently acquired track of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pen... More

Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron C...

Significance: The Field-Pacheo Complex is a commercial and residential complex covering half a block. The two-story, brick corner Field-Pacheco building was built after 1894 as a combination store and residence... More

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), B...

Significance: The Neale House was built before 1869 as the home of Wiliam Neale, one of Brownsville's best-known pioneer citizens. The house resembles the double log houses and frame houses erected by early Ang... More

Norwood-Williams House, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Norwood-Williams House, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Significance: The Norwood-Williams House is a good rural example of a shotgun house, a southern urban and rural dwelling type. A three-room house with a later one-room side addition, the dwelling was built in ... More

Norwood-Williams House, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Norwood-Williams House, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Significance: The Norwood-Williams House is a good rural example of a shotgun house, a southern urban and rural dwelling type. A three-room house with a later one-room side addition, the dwelling was built in ... More

Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicini...

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... More

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Significance: Cedar Oaks is probably the last remaining structure from the extinct river town of Barton. The finish details of the house show a late interpretation of the Greek Revival style found throughout M... More

Ezra Searcy House, West of Prentiss-Tishimingo County Line, New Site, Prentiss County, MS

Ezra Searcy House, West of Prentiss-Tishimingo County Line, New Site, ...

Significance: The Ezra Searcy House was designed and built in 1906 by Daniel Searcy, Ezra's schoolteacher brother. The L-shaped plan of this frame house reflects the care and precision with which Daniel Searcy... More

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo ...

Significance: The Riddle Barn is an example of log technology used in the twentieth century to construct farm outbuildings. The log construction, crude in comparison to that of most nineteenth century log hous... More

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo ...

Significance: The Riddle Barn is an example of log technology used in the twentieth century to construct farm outbuildings. The log construction, crude in comparison to that of most nineteenth century log hous... More

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, East Sixth & East Elizabeth Streets, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, East Sixth & East Elizabeth Street...

Significance: Sacred Heart Church was the first Catholic church for an English-speaking congregation in Brownsville. Built in 1913 by San Antonio architect Frederick B. Gaenslen, the church counted many of Brow... More

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...

Significance: The Browne-Wagner House is an excllent example of Brownsville's turn-of-the-century, detached, two-story brick residences. Built in 1894 by local architect Samuel W. Brooks, the house is designed ... More

Garza House, 1009 East Thirteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Garza House, 1009 East Thirteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: Built before 1894, 1009 East 13th Street resembles creole cottages in New Orleans which were once closely associated with Brownsville through shipping. The steeply pitched roof punctuated by dorme... More

Billie Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

Billie Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Billie Eaton House was built in the 1890s as a two-room house with open central passage. The persistence of traditional plan types exemplified in this dwelling is common in southwestern Tisho... More

Billie Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

Billie Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Billie Eaton House was built in the 1890s as a two-room house with open central passage. The persistence of traditional plan types exemplified in this dwelling is common in southwestern Tisho... More

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market Place & Concord Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market P...

Significance: Designed by Oscar F. Lackey and constructed in 1908-1910, the bulkheads on Piers 4, 5, and 6 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor were among the first reinforced concrete structures erected in seawater i... More

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market Place & Concord Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market P...

Significance: Designed by Oscar F. Lackey and constructed in 1908-1910, the bulkheads on Piers 4, 5, and 6 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor were among the first reinforced concrete structures erected in seawater i... More

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...

Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo Coun...

Significance: The Adams House is a good, late, example of a frame double pen (two-room) plan with open central hall, or "dogtrot," a folk house type indigenous to the rural South. Built in 1913, with a rear el... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Significance: In 1928 the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Company completed a new rail line along the Tombigbee River to connect the recently acquired track of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pen... More

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), B...

Significance: The Neale House was built before 1869 as the home of Wiliam Neale, one of Brownsville's best-known pioneer citizens. The house resembles the double log houses and frame houses erected by early Ang... More

Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicini...

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... More

Jeffries-Gardner Farm, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Jeffries-Gardner Farm, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Significance: The Jeffries-Gardner Farm, consisting of several scattered specialized-use outbuildings and a dwelling, enlarged by three additions, is an example of a family farmstead of the Mississippi Black Be... More

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Significance: Cedar Oaks is probably the last remaining structure from the extinct river town of Barton. The finish details of the house show a late interpretation of the Greek Revival style found throughout M... More

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Significance: Cedar Oaks is probably the last remaining structure from the extinct river town of Barton. The finish details of the house show a late interpretation of the Greek Revival style found throughout M... More

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...

Significance: The Browne-Wagner House is an excllent example of Brownsville's turn-of-the-century, detached, two-story brick residences. Built in 1894 by local architect Samuel W. Brooks, the house is designed ... More

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, 601 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, 601 East Madison Street, ...

Significance: The Southern Pacific RR Passenger Station, built ca. 1929, is a particularly fine example of Spanish Mission Revival architecture. Its sharply defined form and open site make it one of Brownsville... More

Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: Designed and built in 1912 by Tomas Tijerina, this house is notable for its fine brick detailing, characteristic of Rio Grande Valley architecture. The unusual buttresses were added to help the ho... More

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: El Globo Nuevo is typical of nineteenth-century Rio Grande Valley commercial structures whose plain brick facades are highlighted by denticulated cornices and openings grouped into bays by simple ... More

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: El Globo Nuevo is typical of nineteenth-century Rio Grande Valley commercial structures whose plain brick facades are highlighted by denticulated cornices and openings grouped into bays by simple ... More

Garza House, 1009 East Thirteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Garza House, 1009 East Thirteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: Built before 1894, 1009 East 13th Street resembles creole cottages in New Orleans which were once closely associated with Brownsville through shipping. The steeply pitched roof punctuated by dorme... More

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 6, South of Pratt Street between Concord Street & Jones Falls outlet, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 6, South of Pratt Street between Concord ...

Significance: Designed by Oscar F. Lackey and constructed in 1908-1910, the bulkheads on Piers 4, 5, and 6 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor were among the first reinforced concrete structures erected in seawater i... More

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Trimm Barn, built about 1940, is an example of a transverse crib barn, the most common barn type in the Upland South. Originally built to house registered cattle, the gambrel roof barn was mo... More

Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: Stillman House, built in the 1850s, is one of the oldest residences in Brownsville. The house is said to have been the residence of Charles Stillman who owned and developed the original townsite o... More

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Came...

Significance: Cameron County Courthouse, designed by prominent San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres, in 1912, is the second Cameron County Courthouse building. It is notable for its academic architectural detai... More

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Came...

Significance: Cameron County Courthouse, designed by prominent San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres, in 1912, is the second Cameron County Courthouse building. It is notable for its academic architectural detai... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Significance: In 1928 the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Company completed a new rail line along the Tombigbee River to connect the recently acquired track of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pen... More

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Aberdeen Station, U.S. Route 45, Aberdeen, Monroe County, MS

Significance: In 1928 the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Company completed a new rail line along the Tombigbee River to connect the recently acquired track of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pen... More

Douglas Drug Store, 1201 East Elizabeth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Douglas Drug Store, 1201 East Elizabeth Street, Brownsville, Cameron C...

Significance: The Douglas Drug Store, built ca. 1853, is typical of many nineteenth-century commercial structures still standing in downtown Brownsville. Its box-like form is decorated with simple brick dentils... More

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), B...

Significance: The Neale House was built before 1869 as the home of Wiliam Neale, one of Brownsville's best-known pioneer citizens. The house resembles the double log houses and frame houses erected by early Ang... More

Norwood-Williams House, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Norwood-Williams House, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Significance: The Norwood-Williams House is a good rural example of a shotgun house, a southern urban and rural dwelling type. A three-room house with a later one-room side addition, the dwelling was built in ... More

Jeffries-Gardner Farm, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Jeffries-Gardner Farm, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Significance: The Jeffries-Gardner Farm, consisting of several scattered specialized-use outbuildings and a dwelling, enlarged by three additions, is an example of a family farmstead of the Mississippi Black Be... More

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo ...

Significance: The Riddle Barn is an example of log technology used in the twentieth century to construct farm outbuildings. The log construction, crude in comparison to that of most nineteenth century log hous... More

John Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

John Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo C...

Significance: The Eaton House is an example of a double pen (two-room) house, with one rear room and a rear porch under the gable, the porch being enclosed later. Serving as the dwelling of its builder, John E... More

Allen Line Schoolteacher's House, Marietta & Jacinto Road, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

Allen Line Schoolteacher's House, Marietta & Jacinto Road, Tishomingo,...

Significance: The Allen Line School Teacher's House is a good example of a community's provision of housing near a rural school for a teacher, who was also expected to serve as custodian of the school building.... More

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, 601 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, 601 East Madison Street, ...

Significance: The Southern Pacific RR Passenger Station, built ca. 1929, is a particularly fine example of Spanish Mission Revival architecture. Its sharply defined form and open site make it one of Brownsville... More

Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: Designed and built in 1912 by Tomas Tijerina, this house is notable for its fine brick detailing, characteristic of Rio Grande Valley architecture. The unusual buttresses were added to help the ho... More

Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Tomas Tijerina House, 333 East Adams Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: Designed and built in 1912 by Tomas Tijerina, this house is notable for its fine brick detailing, characteristic of Rio Grande Valley architecture. The unusual buttresses were added to help the ho... More

Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Br...

Significance: The Fort Brown Medical Laboratory was built in 1867. It is a good example of a utilitarian, permanent military structure built from local materials. William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the... More

Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Br...

Significance: The Fort Brown Medical Laboratory was built in 1867. It is a good example of a utilitarian, permanent military structure built from local materials. William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the... More

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: El Globo Nuevo is typical of nineteenth-century Rio Grande Valley commercial structures whose plain brick facades are highlighted by denticulated cornices and openings grouped into bays by simple ... More

Alonso Building, 510-514 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Alonso Building, 510-514 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...

Significance: The Alonso Building is an interesting example of a brick, two-story, corner commercial structure in Brownsville. Built around 1890, it still retains its two-story gallery which creates a covered w... More

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Trimm Barn, built about 1940, is an example of a transverse crib barn, the most common barn type in the Upland South. Originally built to house registered cattle, the gambrel roof barn was mo... More

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Trimm Barn, built about 1940, is an example of a transverse crib barn, the most common barn type in the Upland South. Originally built to house registered cattle, the gambrel roof barn was mo... More

Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Stillman House, 1305 East Washington Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: Stillman House, built in the 1850s, is one of the oldest residences in Brownsville. The house is said to have been the residence of Charles Stillman who owned and developed the original townsite o... More

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Came...

Significance: Cameron County Courthouse, designed by prominent San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres, in 1912, is the second Cameron County Courthouse building. It is notable for its academic architectural detai... More

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market Place & Concord Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market P...

Significance: Designed by Oscar F. Lackey and constructed in 1908-1910, the bulkheads on Piers 4, 5, and 6 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor were among the first reinforced concrete structures erected in seawater i... More

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market Place & Concord Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market P...

Significance: Designed by Oscar F. Lackey and constructed in 1908-1910, the bulkheads on Piers 4, 5, and 6 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor were among the first reinforced concrete structures erected in seawater i... More

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

La Madrilena, 1002 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, T...

Significance: La Madrilena (a native of Madrid), built in 1892, is a noteworthy example of a small-scale brick corner store. The brick work of the openings, which extend around the store and the elaborate corni... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

El Globo Chiquito, 1054 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

El Globo Chiquito, 1054 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron Count...

Significance: El Globo Chiquito (Laiseca Store) is an excellent example of a modest, late nineteenth-century wood frame store. Built ca. 1887, the store's simple but rare twin-gabled form is relieved by shutter... More

Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron C...

Significance: The Field-Pacheo Complex is a commercial and residential complex covering half a block. The two-story, brick corner Field-Pacheco building was built after 1894 as a combination store and residence... More

Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Field-Pacheco Complex, 1049 East Monroe Street, Brownsville, Cameron C...

Significance: The Field-Pacheo Complex is a commercial and residential complex covering half a block. The two-story, brick corner Field-Pacheco building was built after 1894 as a combination store and residence... More

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Neale House, 230 Neale Road (moved from 625 East Fourteenth Street), B...

Significance: The Neale House was built before 1869 as the home of Wiliam Neale, one of Brownsville's best-known pioneer citizens. The house resembles the double log houses and frame houses erected by early Ang... More

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Cedar Oaks, Barton Ferry Road, West Point, Clay County, MS

Significance: Cedar Oaks is probably the last remaining structure from the extinct river town of Barton. The finish details of the house show a late interpretation of the Greek Revival style found throughout M... More

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

M. V. Riddle Barn, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo ...

Significance: The Riddle Barn is an example of log technology used in the twentieth century to construct farm outbuildings. The log construction, crude in comparison to that of most nineteenth century log hous... More

John Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

John Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo C...

Significance: The Eaton House is an example of a double pen (two-room) house, with one rear room and a rear porch under the gable, the porch being enclosed later. Serving as the dwelling of its builder, John E... More

John Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

John Eaton House, Old Natchez Trace vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo C...

Significance: The Eaton House is an example of a double pen (two-room) house, with one rear room and a rear porch under the gable, the porch being enclosed later. Serving as the dwelling of its builder, John E... More

Valdez House, 815 East Fourteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Valdez House, 815 East Fourteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: The Valdez House, built in 1910, is a superb example of the type of small cottage typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The distinguishing feature of this sm... More

Valdez House, 815 East Fourteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Valdez House, 815 East Fourteenth Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: The Valdez House, built in 1910, is a superb example of the type of small cottage typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The distinguishing feature of this sm... More

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 4, South side of Pratt Street between Frederick Street & Market Place, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 4, South side of Pratt Street between Fre...

Significance: Designed by Oscar F. Lackey and constructed in 1908-1910, the bulkheads on Piers 4, 5, and 6 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor were among the first reinforced concrete structures erected in seawater i... More

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...

Significance: The Browne-Wagner House is an excllent example of Brownsville's turn-of-the-century, detached, two-story brick residences. Built in 1894 by local architect Samuel W. Brooks, the house is designed ... More

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...

Significance: The Browne-Wagner House is an excllent example of Brownsville's turn-of-the-century, detached, two-story brick residences. Built in 1894 by local architect Samuel W. Brooks, the house is designed ... More

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Browne-Wagner House, 245 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...

Significance: The Browne-Wagner House is an excllent example of Brownsville's turn-of-the-century, detached, two-story brick residences. Built in 1894 by local architect Samuel W. Brooks, the house is designed ... More

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, 601 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, 601 East Madison Street, ...

Significance: The Southern Pacific RR Passenger Station, built ca. 1929, is a particularly fine example of Spanish Mission Revival architecture. Its sharply defined form and open site make it one of Brownsville... More

Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Fort Brown, Medical Laboratory, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicinity, Br...

Significance: The Fort Brown Medical Laboratory was built in 1867. It is a good example of a utilitarian, permanent military structure built from local materials. William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the... More

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: El Globo Nuevo is typical of nineteenth-century Rio Grande Valley commercial structures whose plain brick facades are highlighted by denticulated cornices and openings grouped into bays by simple ... More

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

El Globo Nuevo, 1502 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County,...

Significance: El Globo Nuevo is typical of nineteenth-century Rio Grande Valley commercial structures whose plain brick facades are highlighted by denticulated cornices and openings grouped into bays by simple ... More

Alonso Building, 510-514 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Alonso Building, 510-514 East Saint Charles Street, Brownsville, Camer...

Significance: The Alonso Building is an interesting example of a brick, two-story, corner commercial structure in Brownsville. Built around 1890, it still retains its two-story gallery which creates a covered w... More

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Trimm Barn, built about 1940, is an example of a transverse crib barn, the most common barn type in the Upland South. Originally built to house registered cattle, the gambrel roof barn was mo... More

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Came...

Significance: Cameron County Courthouse, designed by prominent San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres, in 1912, is the second Cameron County Courthouse building. It is notable for its academic architectural detai... More

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cameron County Courthouse, 1150 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Came...

Significance: Cameron County Courthouse, designed by prominent San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres, in 1912, is the second Cameron County Courthouse building. It is notable for its academic architectural detai... More

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market Place & Concord Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 5, South of Pratt Street between Market P...

Significance: Designed by Oscar F. Lackey and constructed in 1908-1910, the bulkheads on Piers 4, 5, and 6 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor were among the first reinforced concrete structures erected in seawater i... More

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo Coun...

Significance: The Adams House is a good, late, example of a frame double pen (two-room) plan with open central hall, or "dogtrot," a folk house type indigenous to the rural South. Built in 1913, with a rear el... More

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, MS

R. G. Adams House, Mackeys Creek vicinity, Tishomingo, Tishomingo Coun...

Significance: The Adams House is a good, late, example of a frame double pen (two-room) plan with open central hall, or "dogtrot," a folk house type indigenous to the rural South. Built in 1913, with a rear el... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Trevino House, 1405 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, Cameron County...

Significance: The Trevino House, a modest residence built as a rental property between 1910 and 1915, combines architectural elements typical of the area in a spacial fashion. Two units with interior, rear porc... More

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