Architecture
Of the Rio Grande Valley
Jack R. McArver House
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1960 Architects -Charles B. CroftThis home was designed and built in the 1960s by Charles B. Croft for Jack R. McArver in Harlingen’s garden subdivision Laurel Park
Dr. Charles Binney, II House
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 19X Architects -Alan Y. TaniguchiThis home was designed by Alan Y. Taniguchi for Dr. Charles Binney, II in 1957 As prototype of this subdivision – Laurel Park – this home is surrounded by different species of palm trees and other...
Dr. Vance D. Hoffmaster House
ArchitectureEdinburg, TXYear Built - 1950 Architects - Martin Roe Address - 216 Austin Boulevard, Edinburg, TXThis home was designed by Martin Roe c. 1950. Address: 216 Austin Boulevard – Edinburg, Texas – Notice the beautiful tile collage by the front door.
Max Mauermann House
ArchitectureEdinburg, TXYear Built - 1952 Address - 340 Austin Boulevard, Edinburg, TXText content will go here.
Calle Benito Juárez
ArchitectureNueva Ciudad GuerreroYear Built - 1954Instead of a dense, compact urban fabric containing a mixture of uses, Guerrero is zoned, with residential neighborhoods of freestanding, single-family houses flanking a downtown commercial street.
Camille Sams and Larry F. Lightner House
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1936 Architects - Russell T. PancoastThe Great Depression undermined the equation of scenography and modernization. One alternative that preserved use of historical models was Regionalism, which entailed modernizing and...
Around Brownsville
ArchitectureBrownsville, TX
William T. Aldridge House
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1949 Architects - Cocke, Bowman & YorkCocke, Bowman & York’s Aldridge House in Brownsville of 1949 shows how Richard Neutra’s postwar work also affected York’s design discipline. This is a plan diagram drawn from memory by the...
Guillermo Peña House
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1950 Architects - Caudill Rowlett ScottDuring the 1950s, members of the Valley’s emerging Mexican-American middle class asserted parity with their Anglo-American counterparts by becoming patrons of modern architecture. The...
Dr. George Narro House
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 19X Architects - John G. YorkThe Narro House, and an adjoining York-designed house for Dr. Rafael Garza, were on the edge of, but not in, the elite Anglo neighborhoods just east of S. 2nd Street.
Antonio Cisneros, Jr. House
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1955 Architects - John YorkJohn York designed modern houses in Río Viejo in Brownsville for the gasoline wholesaler Antonio Cisneros, Jr., in 1955 (York also designed a series of gas stations for Cisneros). In McAllen he...
Shelby Longoria-Theriot House
ArchitectureMatamos, TXYear Built - 1950 Architects - Ellis F. AlbaughThe Matamoros banker, cotton merchant, and entrepreneur Shelby Longoria-Theriot had the Brownsville architect Ellis F. Albaugh design an equally sprawling American-type ranch house in Colonia Jardín...
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Modern Meets Mexico in McAllen, Texas
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1959 Architects -Merle A. Simpson Text - Stephen FoxMcAllen artist and art collector Ann Maddox Moore built this amazing modern house, designed by Merle A. Simpson, in 1959. Nestled at the end of a cul-de-sac that backs up to the...
Matamoros’ Midcentury Legacy
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1950, 1951, 1956 Architects -Enrique León de la Barra, Augustín Reyes Escobar, Sergio Paredes Rangel, Ignacio López Bancalari, Frank Lloyd Wright Text and Photos - Stephen FoxAcross the border from Brownsville, Texas, is Matamoros,...
A Door Worth Crossing – Matamoros’ Puerta Mexico
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1963 Architects -Mario Pani, Hilario Galguera Text and Photos - Stephen FoxDuring a recent lecture for the Lower Rio Grande Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Stephen Fox presented this information about “La...
Matamoros’ Architectural MCM Jewel
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1969 Architects - Mario Pani Text and Photos - Stephen FoxThe Centro Artesanal in Matamoros, built in 1969 in the second phase of PRONAF development, after Mario Pani ceased to be affiliated with PRONAF, was as dramatic in its use of...
Modernist Churches in Northern Mexico
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1941-46, 1953 Architects - Enrique de la Mora e Ing. Armando Ravizé Rodríguez Text and Photos - Stephen FoxBasílica de la Purísima, Monterrey, 1941-46, Arq. Enrique de la Mora e Ing. Armando Ravizé Rodríguez Although proponents of the...
Aeropuerto Internacional General Servando Canales
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1958 Architects - Luis MacGregor KriegerAeropuerto Internacional General Servando Canales, Matamoros (1958) Arq. Luis MacGregor Krieger Matamoros attracted a second young architect from Mexico City, Luis MacGregor Krieger, who was...
Plan Regulador de Matamoros
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1958 Text and Photos - Stephen FoxPani’s plan regulador for Matamoros was consistent with the modernist planning logic of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero. It aimed to transform the edges of a 19th-century Creole city into an exemplar of...
Calle 6a y Calle and Palacio Municipal
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1940s Architects - Jorge ElizaldeThe Lázaro Cárdenas administration began construction in the 1930s of a network of flood protection levees, diversion dams, and irrigation canals that, as historian Casey Walsh demonstrates, converted...
Casa López Padrón
ArchitectureMatamorosSergio Paredes designed the Casa López Padrón not in Colonia Jardín but in Matamoros’s Zona Centro on Calle Sexta, the city’s principal north-south thoroughfare. Matamoros architects were called on to insert modern houses into mixed-use, urban...
Centro Comercial PRONAF
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1964 Architects -Arqs. Mario Pani y Hilario GalgueraThe most publicized modern architecture built along the lower Río Grande in the 1960s was produced in conjunction with a Mexican government initiative, the Programa Nacional...
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