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Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Bandido

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Bandido

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas

Cotton weighing near Brownsville, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Enlisted men at El Rancho Grande

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Enlisted men at El Rancho Gran...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Mexican market

Brownsville, Texas. Mexican market

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Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Bandidos

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Bandidos

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gulls and other birds cavort in the air and in a spit of land in South Bay, below the long causeway that connects Brownsville and Port Isabel in Cameron County, Texas

Gulls and other birds cavort in the air and in a spit of land in South...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... 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

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

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

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

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Harvesters in bean field

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Harvesters in bean field

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Children

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Children

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Officer's dance, El Rancho Grande

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Officer's dance, El Rancho Gra...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Sociedad Benito Juarez. Mexican section

Brownsville, Texas. Sociedad Benito Juarez. Mexican section

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, 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

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

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, Texas. Winter tourists playing cards at the Chamber of Commerce building

Brownsville, Texas. Winter tourists playing cards at the Chamber of Co...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Seeing the show at El Rancho Grande

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Seeing the show at El Rancho G...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. USO (United Services Organization) chaperones at dance for enlisted men. El Rancho Grande

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. USO (United Services Organizat...

Public domain photograph of a group of people, audience, meeting, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. A bandido shakes hands with a local military officer

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. A bandido shakes hands with a ...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. El Rancho Grande. The charro is a local restaurant keeper

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. El Rancho Grande. The charro i...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brownsville, Texas. Retired army officer registering men for Selective Service at the Chamber of Commerce

Brownsville, Texas. Retired army officer registering men for Selective...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Girl in a Tiawana headdress

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Girl in a Tiawana headdress

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Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Member of local businessmen's committee dressed as Mexican bandido

Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days fiesta. Member of local businessmen's ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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

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