ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 19X Architects -Kenneth BentsenThe charisma of the California ranch house is visible in the expansive one-story house that the real estate developer, banker, rancher, and citrus grower Lloyd M. Bentsen and his wife Dolly...
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1965 Architects -Kenneth Bentsen AssociatesThis regionalist resurgence was also evident in the house that Kenneth Bentsen designed for his sister and brother-in-law, Betty Bentsen and R. Dan Winn, in McAllen of 1965. Bentsen...
ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1960s Architects - Max Burkhart Text - Stephen FoxArchitect Max Burkhart’s house attests to his involvement with concrete construction in the 1960s and 1970s. Burkhart founded Valcon, a Pharr construction company specializing in...
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...
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,...
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...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1949 Architects - John YorkMy husband and I are crazy about the architecture from the 50’s and 60’s, we love our home designed by Architect John York in 1949. It has taken us about 12 years to restore this home, and we know this...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXThis is an amazing and spacious home which was recently restored with the professional guidance of Megamorphosis Architecture & Interior Design. The entire home was gutted, and everything is brand new. We will write a full story about the...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1958 Architects -E. Lester SwansonThe Harlingen City Lake area boasts a good number of midcentury modern homes that have preserved their style throughout the years like these two we present here. Top photo is the Architect E....
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1952 Architects -Cocke, Bowman, & York Text and Photo - Stephen FoxThe most radical of Cocke, Bowman & York’s houses was the house that York designed for his wife, Patsy Catsinas and their three children, Sandra, James, and...