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(Spanish) En este edificio, construido en 1892 por Adrian Ortiz, se establecio La Tienda Ortiz. Esta construccion es uno de los ejemplos mas significativos en la arquitectura historica del valle. Esta joya arquitectonica, con sus detalles del lad…
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(English) Built in 1892 by Santiago McCoy and Modesto Estevan Adam for Adrian Barreda Ortiz, a native of Madrid, Spain, it is an example of an L-plan mercantile store. The architecture is a mix of Victorian and Border Brick style. The store opera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Z5_la-madrilena_Brownsville-TX.html
A native of Spain, Adrian Ortiz (1860-1957) emigrated to Brownsville before he was 18 and lived with relatives who trained him as a merchant. He built this structure in 1892 to house his mercantile operation, La Madrilena (native of Madrid), an im…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y9_cameron-county-courthouse-of-1883-1914_Brownsville-TX.html
Completed in 1883, this was the first courthouse built by Cameron County officials, who previously rented or purchased office space. This three-story brick structure served as the county courthouse until 1914, when a new building was erected. Rio …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y7_old-county-courthouse-rio-grande-lodge-no-81_Brownsville-TX.html
Designed by architects J.N. Preston & Son and built in 1882-1883, this courthouse included juror sleeping rooms on the third floor. Since 1914 this building has been owned by the Masonic Rio Grande Lodge No. 81, which had been meeting since 1848 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y4_1882-cameron-county-courthouse_Brownsville-TX.html
English: Built in 1882 by S.W. Brooks and designed by J.N. Preston & Son, this was the first courthouse built for Cameron County. It has continuously housed the Masonic Lodge since 1914. It was built in the Second Renaissance Revival style, once …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y3_immaculate-conception-cathedral_Brownsville-TX.html
Mass was first celebrated in this area in 1849 by the oblates of Mary Immaculate. This church building was completed ten years later. Father Peter Yves Keralum designed the structure, which features Gothic Revival styling. The rectory was the site…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y2_immaculate-conception-cathedral_Brownsville-TX.html
This cathedral, which was completed on July 6, 1856, was built with 250,000 hand-made clay bricks shaped and oven cured in the nearby village of Santa Rosalia. This church designed and constructed under the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate who ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y1_father-pierre-yves-keralum_Brownsville-TX.html
Father Pierre Yves Keralum was born in France in 1817, and worked as both a cabinetmaker and an architect before entering the seminary at the age of 28. In 1852 he was ordained an Oblate of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) and sent to deep south Texas t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27WO_home-of-charles-stillman_Brownsville-TX.html
Home of Charles Stillman, ship owner, merchant, rancher, who came to Brazos Santiago in 1828 and in 1849-50 founded City of Brownsville in old Espiritu Santo Land Grant. Built about 1850 for his bride, Elizabeth Goodrich, of Connecticut. Has se…
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