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.
Mid-Century Modern
Plaza Juárez and Palacio Municipal
ArchitectureNueva Ciudad GuerreroThe central plaza is not in the center of town but isolated at one edge, on an acropolis near the lakeshore. The Palacio Municipal is a modern concrete building. Like Falcón Dam, it is an example of functionalist engineer’s...
Templo de Nuestra Señora del Regfugio, Nueva Ciudad Guerrero
ArchitectureNueva Ciudad GuerreroYear Built - 1959 Architects - Calle EisenhowerFrom as late as 1959, when the parish church of Nuestra Señora del Refugio was built in the new town of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, traces of the Purísima model are evident. In the border...
Early 20th Century Historical Buildings in Brownsville, Texas
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXBuilding in Photo - Hotel El Jardin and Missouri-Pacific Passenger Station Year Built - 1927 Architects -K lwood Co.Hotel El Jardín and Missouri-Pacific Passenger Station, 1927, Kelwood Co.; Brownsville International Airport, 1929, 1930, Ben...
Darling-Mouser Funeral Home
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1966 Architects - Robert E. VeltenIn Brownsville, Robert E. Velten, son of the Brownsville builder W. A. Velten, began practice in 1959. Velten’s Darling-Mouser Funeral Home of 1966 explored the use of folded plate...
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish School
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1964 Architects - Marvin BolandBowman Swanson Hiester were especially identified with the design of school buildings, such as Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish School in Brownsville of 1964, for which Marvin Boland was designer.
Puerta Mexico and U.S. Border Services Building
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1961 Architects - Mario Pani (Mexico) | John York & Olin BoeseContrasting national policies about the role that architecture and urban design might play in constructing national identity were evident in comparing Matamoros’s...
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1965 Architects -Wilhite & WinansDuring a recent visit we were able to photograph the building to share with our readers. It was built in 1965 and designed by Wilhite & Winans. Inside, the facility is practically intact. We were...
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...
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