ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1950s Architects -John McKelvey and John York Text and Photos - Stephen FoxGale Cook gave Stephen Fox this aerial photo, taken in 1950, of the most ambitious of John McKelvey and John York’s collaborations: Laurel Park,...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1949 Architects - Cocke, Bowman, & YorkCocke, Bowman & York designed the House Designed for Living of 1949 as Laurel Park’s demonstration house. Because the house lies on the north side of the street, its rooms need to open toward...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1950 Architects - Cocke, Bowman, & York Text & Photos - Stephen FoxIt is intriguing to contrast the interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian architecture in Matamoros in the 1950s with its interpretation by Cocke, Bowman &...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1949 Architects - Cocke, Bowman, and York Text and Photos - Stephen FoxAt the Frank G. Parker House on South Parkwood of 1949, Cocke, Bowman & York registered the slight change in grade between the higher portion of the yard,...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1956 Architects -Alan Y. Taniguchi Text and Photo - Stephen FoxTaniguchi’s house for Dr James Burkholder of 1956, on the banks of the Arroyo Colorado in Harlingen, could have been transposed from the Berkeley Hills.
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1957 Architects - Alan Y. Taniguchi Text and Photo - Stephen FoxAn expansive house with low-pitched roof and glazed gable for Dr. George Willeford of 1957 was one of several Taniguchi designed in Laurel Park. Unlike John York and...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1950 Architects - Cocke, Bowman, and York Text and Photos - Stephen FoxHouses on the south side of South Parkwood, such as the steel-framed Wilson R. Palmer House of 1950, met the street with brick end panels and modular side...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1953 Architects -Alan Y. TaniguchiEddie and Alma Rocha welcome RGVMOD into their Harlingen home to talk about their love story with their Taniguchi home built in 1953 for William E. Black. Both Alma and Eddie work for Southwest...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1955 Architects - Alan Y. TaniguchiJack King was no stranger to Alan Y. Taniguchi’s architecture when he bought a house in Harlingen’s Laurel Park, for Jack studied under Taniguchi at the University of Texas back in 1967. “It was...
ArchitectureHarlingen, TXYear Built - 1950s Architects -Alan Y. TaniguchiThese two fine examples of the modern architecture of the Rio Grande Valley can be found on Ferguson Drive in Harlingen. The house pictured on top was designed by Alan Y. Taniguchi for Dr. John...