ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1920sConcrete friezes and Spanish Colonial architecture adorn the firs suburban fire station in Brownsville, Texas. It is located on West Levee Street and dates from the mid 1920s
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Kowalski – Dennett House in Brownsville
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXYear Built - 1893 Architects - S. W. Brooks Text - Stephen Fox Photos - RGVModThe Kowalski-Dennett House is one of Brownsville’s rare surviving Victorian houses. It is also rare because documentation of its design and construction survives....
Border Brick Style in Downtown Brownsville
ArchitectureBrownsville, TXThe Hide Yark Building from the 1880’s in downtown Brownsville has recently undergone an amazing restoration and now houses the Half Moon Saloon. Owner George Ramirez is the proud owner and a lover of good music. The Half Moon Saloon is...
Basic Elements of Modern Architecture
Architecture“Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says, (I know his name, no matter)—so much less! Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.”Robert Browning was the first to pen the phase “less is more” in his 1855 poem Andrea del Sarto Called “The Faultless...
The Bauhaus: An introduction to Modernism
ArchitectureIn conceiving the interior as a work of art, the artist must first think of it as a space, as the overall form and the interrelationship of the space-enclosing surfaces.” -Hemann Muthesius, The English House (1904) This quote was written by Amanda Dameron,...
Finding Inspiration in Palm Springs
ArchitecturePalm Springs, CAIf there is one thing I remember about Disney World is the impeccable landscapes. There was a show on one of the cable networks that reported on this characteristic featuring the staff and maintenance standards they follow to keep this...
The Kamrath House in Houston
ArchitectureHouston, TXYear Built - 1951 Architects - MacKie and KamrathWe had the amazing opportunity to tour this beautiful home on the banks of Buffalo Bayou in the River Oaks subdivision of Houston during DOCOMOMO‘s annual symposium. The house was designed by...
MCM Religion in Weslaco
ArchitectureWeslaco, TXYear Built - 1951 Architects - R. Newell Waters, William C. Baxter, John F. Ring, Associates Text and Photos - Stephen FoxGrace Church, Weslaco, 1951, R. Newell Waters Comparable to the streamlined neocolonial houses of Enrique León de la Barra...
John A. Knapp House
ArchitectureWeslaco, TXYear Built - 1939 Architects - R. Newell Waters Text - Stephen FoxSouthern California proffered a new suburban house type: the California ranch house. The Weslaco architect R. Newell Waters produced a California ranch type house for the Weslaco...
Former First Baptist Church
ArchitectureSan Benito, TXYear Built - 1959 Architects - Bowman, Swanson & Hiester Address - 250 N. Crockett Street, San Benito, TXThe church was built in 1959 and designed by the architecture firm of Bowman, Swanson & Hiester of Harlingen. It is no longer a Baptish...