ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1950s Architects -Alan Y. Taniguchi Text and Photo - John Pearcy AIA1716 S Ed Carey, Harlingen TX: Alan Taniguchi design. This beauty had been essentially ensconced in haphazard construction. It received a vertical wood...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1950s Architects -Cocke, Bowman, & York Text and Photo - John Pearcy AIAWe believe that 1710 S. Ed Carey, Harlingen, Texas is a John G. York design. This beauty had been essentially ensconced in haphazard construction....
ArchitectureRancho Viejo, TXYear Built - 1961 Architects - Alan Y. Taniguchi and Charles CroftAlan Taniguchi and his partner Charles Croft were especially identified with the use of thin shell technology in the Valley. Their House of Mo-Rose citrus packing shed of...
ArchitectureMercedes, TXYear Built - 1960 Architects - Gene P. Hobart Text and Photos - Stephen FoxAnother of the young generation of architects, Gene P. Hobart of Mercedes, like Taniguchi a native of California, suspended a folded plate concrete roof system from...
ArchitectureTexasville, TXYear Built - 1961 Architects - Cowell & Neuhaus, David Haid Associates Text and Photos - Stephen FoxThis building has lost its architectural greatness, so we have added this article under the “Lifestyles” menu of RGVMOD. We find this building...
ArchitectureMcAllen, TX
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1958 Architects - Zeb Rike & Associates, J. B. Hancock; Caudill Rowlett Scott, consulting architects Text and Photos - Stephen FoxThe Fort Brown Memorial Center touched off an architectural competition among Valley cities. McAllen...
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1958 Architects - John G. York & AssociatesDr. Narro also commissioned York to design the Narro-Sánchez Clinic in McAllen of 1958, which featured an abstract tile mural by the artist Shirley Voekrodt.
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1960 Architects - Merle A. Simpson Text and Photo - Stephen FoxMerle Simpson described the buildings he, York, Taniguchi, and other Valley architects designed–such as Simpson’s Wilson’s Funeral Chapel in McAllen of 1960—as examples...
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1963 Architects - David P. AshcroftSuch Ashcroft designs as the circular Sanborn’s Insurance Co. pavilion on S. 10th Street in McAllen, next to the Fairway, and the Bailey H. Dunlap Memorial Library in La Feria of 1963 demonstrate...