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Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brow...

Survey number: HABS TX-3139 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction

Dorsey House, 113 Cherry Avenue, West Brownsville, Washington County, PA

Dorsey House, 113 Cherry Avenue, West Brownsville, Washington County, ...

Significance: Good example of a well preserved 18th century house. Survey number: HABS PA-5176

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

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

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville, Berks County, PA

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville, Berks County, PA

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction

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

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton ...

Significance: Interesting example of rural, Federal-style house, particularly noteworthy for its fine interior Federal woodwork. Significant extant outbuildings, including the "Old Hall" (Ruins), which may be ... More

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction

Matsell Cottage, Northwest corner of Township Road 229 & Illinois Route 1, Brownsville, White County, IL

Matsell Cottage, Northwest corner of Township Road 229 & Illinois Rout...

Significance: The Matsell Cottage apparently dates to the 1850s. It is one of only two known nineteenth century log houses still standing in White County. As an example of a simple variety of the traditional Mi... 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

Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: The Cross House is one of the best examples of the house form most typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These small wood frame structures are characterized ... 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

Brownsville, Outbuildings, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia

Brownsville, Outbuildings, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox...

Survey number: HABS VA-810-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brow...

Survey number: HABS TX-3139 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction

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

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

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

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, ...

Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent... More

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton ...

Significance: Interesting example of rural, Federal-style house, particularly noteworthy for its fine interior Federal woodwork. Significant extant outbuildings, including the "Old Hall" (Ruins), which may be ... More

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction

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

Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: The Cross House is one of the best examples of the house form most typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These small wood frame structures are characterized ... More

Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Cameron County, TX

Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Camero...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-1 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction

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

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

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville, Berks County, PA

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction

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

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville, Berks County, PA

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville...

Significance: The Lauer/Gerhard farmstead is a well-preserved example of a Pennsylvania German family farm. Its layout illustrates socio-historical continuity and spatial integrity through nearly 200 years, and... More

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, ...

Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent... More

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton ...

Significance: Interesting example of rural, Federal-style house, particularly noteworthy for its fine interior Federal woodwork. Significant extant outbuildings, including the "Old Hall" (Ruins), which may be ... More

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Carmen Ranch House, Rio Grande Vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-3 Building/structure dates: 18h1 Initial Construction

John Krepps Tavern, U.S. 40, Old National Trail, 2.5 miles west of Brownsville, West Brownsville, Washington County, PA

John Krepps Tavern, U.S. 40, Old National Trail, 2.5 miles west of Bro...

Significance: One of a series of inns built in the early nineteenth century on the Old National or Cumberland Road. The original plan of the building remains unchanged. Unprocessed Field note material exists ... More

Matsell Cottage, Northwest corner of Township Road 229 & Illinois Route 1, Brownsville, White County, IL

Matsell Cottage, Northwest corner of Township Road 229 & Illinois Rout...

Significance: The Matsell Cottage apparently dates to the 1850s. It is one of only two known nineteenth century log houses still standing in White County. As an example of a simple variety of the traditional Mi... More

Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Cross Family House, 911 East Madison Street, Brownsville, Cameron Coun...

Significance: The Cross House is one of the best examples of the house form most typical of Brownsville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These small wood frame structures are characterized ... More

Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Cameron County, TX

Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Camero...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-1 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction

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

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

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

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville, Berks County, PA

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brown...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-C Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1800 S... 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

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville, Berks County, PA

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction

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

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, ...

Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent... 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

Matsell Cottage, Northwest corner of Township Road 229 & Illinois Route 1, Brownsville, White County, IL

Matsell Cottage, Northwest corner of Township Road 229 & Illinois Rout...

Significance: The Matsell Cottage apparently dates to the 1850s. It is one of only two known nineteenth century log houses still standing in White County. As an example of a simple variety of the traditional Mi... 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

Dundore Farm, State Route 183 &  Church Road vicinity, Penn Township (moved to Brownsville vicinity, Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County), Mount Pleasant, Berks County, PA

Dundore Farm, State Route 183 & Church Road vicinity, Penn Township (...

Significance: This is a good example of a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German family farm. Although once very prosperous, the farm failed to adjust to agricultural modernization in the late nineteenth and ea... 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

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Twelfth & Jefferson Streets, Brow...

Survey number: HABS TX-3139 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction

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

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville, Berks County, PA

Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brown...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-C Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1800 S... 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

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

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

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

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, ...

Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent... More

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA

Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, ...

Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent... More

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia

Brownsville, State Routes 608 & 600 vicinity, Nassawadox, Northampton ...

Significance: Interesting example of rural, Federal-style house, particularly noteworthy for its fine interior Federal woodwork. Significant extant outbuildings, including the "Old Hall" (Ruins), which may be ... More

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