Mid-Century Modern

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1951 Architects - Page, Southerland & PageFor those for whom John York’s designs were too far out, the Contemporary California ranch house offered an alternative. The Brownsville customs broker J. Gilbert Philen commissioned the...

ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1963 Architects - Ruth Young McGonigleRuth Young McGonigle, a Houstonian and a graduate of Rice who moved to the border in 1925 as the bride of George McGonigle, a Brownsville farmer, practiced for over fifty years. When the...