Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction
Through photographs, Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, celebrates the architecture of the Texas-Mexico border region, its craftsmen, its cultures and its climate. The architectural images by Pino Shah provide a journey through 160 years of history and heritage, revealing the border’s built environment as filtered through diverse cultures: Mexican, Spanish, American, German, and French. The photographs highlight the distinctive styles -- Spanish and Mexican Colonial, border brick, Mid-century Modern, Pan American and 21st Century – found in the southernmost region of Texas. These architecturally significant buildings are often culturally and historically significant as well. Pino Shah is a world heritage photographer based in McAllen, Texas and Ahmedabad, India. Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas provided the narratives for photographs and is as an architectural advisor to the project.
Through photographs, Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, celebrates the architecture of the Texas-Mexico border region, its craftsmen, its cultures and its climate. The architectural images by Pino Shah provide a journey through 160 years of history and heritage, revealing the border’s built environment as filtered through diverse cultures: Mexican, Spanish, American, German, and French. The photographs highlight the distinctive styles -- Spanish and Mexican Colonial, border brick, Mid-century Modern, Pan American and 21st Century – found in the southernmost region of Texas. These architecturally significant buildings are often culturally and historically significant as well.
Pino Shah is a world heritage photographer based in McAllen, Texas and Ahmedabad, India. Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas provided the narratives for photographs and is as an architectural advisor to the project.
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CONTENTS<br />
1841 Neale House (Brownsville Art League) Brownsville<br />
1849 Commandant’s House (Lee House) <strong>Rio</strong> <strong>Grande</strong> City<br />
1851 Port Isabel Lighthouse Port Isabel<br />
1869 Post Hospital, Fort Brown<br />
(Administration, Texas Southmost College) Brownsville<br />
1877 J. P. Kelsey House<br />
(Río <strong>Grande</strong> City Hall)<br />
<strong>Rio</strong> <strong>Grande</strong> City<br />
1882 Our Lady <strong>of</strong> Visitation Catholic Church Santa Maria<br />
1884 Manuel Guerra Building Roma<br />
1886 Silverio de la Pena Building <strong>Rio</strong> <strong>Grande</strong> City<br />
1899 Charles Champion Building Port Isabel<br />
1899 Oblate Chapel Mission<br />
1907 Mission Canal Company Second Lift Pumphouse Mission<br />
1912 Teatro de la Paz<br />
(<strong>Rio</strong> Theater)<br />
Mission<br />
1917 Francois La Borde House and Store<br />
(La Borde House Hotel)<br />
<strong>Rio</strong> <strong>Grande</strong> City<br />
1927 R. W. Baxter Building Harlingen<br />
1927 Mercedes City Hall and Fire Station Mercedes<br />
1927 Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Pacific Lines Passenger Station<br />
(Law Office <strong>of</strong> Kurt Stephen)<br />
McAllen<br />
1928 Weslaco City Hall and Fire Station Weslaco<br />
1931 Alta Vista Apartments Port Isabel<br />
1931 United States Post Office, Courthouse,<br />
<strong>An</strong>d Custom House (Brownsville City Hall) Brownsville<br />
1933 Percy Herman House<br />
(Frank and Marvella House)<br />
McAllen<br />
1933 Kreidler Funeral Home<br />
(Negrete and Kolar Architects)<br />
Edinburg<br />
1939 Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center McAllen<br />
1942 Border Theater Mission<br />
1950 Temple Beth Israel Harlingen<br />
1951 John Stahl House<br />
(Trev and Donna Sparks House)<br />
McAllen<br />
1959 Echo Motor Hotel Edinburg<br />
1959 St. Joseph’s Academy Brownsville<br />
1961 House <strong>of</strong> Mo-Rose Packing Shed Rancho Viejo<br />
1963 Bailey H. Dunlap Memorial Library La Feria<br />
1964 First National Bank Building<br />
(Bank <strong>of</strong> America Building)<br />
Mission<br />
1971 Villa del Sol Brownsville<br />
1980 Basilica <strong>of</strong> Our Lady <strong>of</strong> San Juan del Valle<br />
National Shrine<br />
San Juan<br />
1995 Hidalgo City Hall Hidalgo<br />
2000 <strong>An</strong>n Richards Middle School La Joya<br />
2007 Education Buildings C and D,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Texas <strong>Rio</strong> <strong>Grande</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Edinburg<br />
2010 National Butterfly Center Welcome Center Mission<br />
2011 McAllen Public Library McAllen<br />
2014 La Hacienda Casitas Harlingen<br />
2015 Performing Arts Complex<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Texas <strong>Rio</strong> <strong>Grande</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Edinburg<br />
2016 Medical Academic Building,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Texas <strong>Rio</strong> <strong>Grande</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> Edinburg
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