Religious & Public

ArchitectureEdinburg, TXYear Built - 1947 Architects -Charles E. KoenThe St. Joseph Catholic Church was designed by Architect Charles E. Koen in 1947. Koen produced good work in the Rio Grande Valley when the Valley was part of the Corpus Christi diocese.

ArchitectureNueva Ciudad GuerreroYear Built - 1948-54Under the auspices of the International Water and Boundary Commission, the U.S. and Mexican governments sought through the 1960s to repeat the integrated development strategy associated with the Tennessee Valley...

ArchitectureNueva Ciudad GuerreroYear Built - 1950-54 Architects - Carlos LazoOn the shore of Falcón International Reservoir, the new town of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero was built in 1950-54 to replace Guerrero’s 18th-century townsite, inundated by impoundment of river...

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...

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...

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.

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...

ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1964 Architects - Charles B. Croft Address - 1706 Rangerville Road, Harlingen, TX