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File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Bill Engdahl for Hedrich-Blessing, Photographers, February, 1979 SOUTHEAST (FRONT) ELEVATION. - Fort Brown, Commissary and Guard House, May HABS TEX,31-BROWN,10A-3.tif

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Historic American Buildings Survey, Bill Engdahl for Hedrich-Blessing, Photographers, February, 1979 SOUTHEAST (FRONT) ELEVATION. - Fort Brown, Commissary and Guard House, May Street and Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX
Title
Historic American Buildings Survey, Bill Engdahl for Hedrich-Blessing, Photographers, February, 1979 SOUTHEAST (FRONT) ELEVATION. - Fort Brown, Commissary and Guard House, May Street and Gorgas Drive vicinity, Brownsville, Cameron County, TX
Depicted place Texas; Cameron County; Brownsville
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS TEX,31-BROWN,10A-3
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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Notes
  • Significance: Building 88 was constructed around 1903 as a commissary. After the Battle of Matamoros in June 1913 the building was used to hold Mexican insurgents as prisoners. It has a long history of adaptive re-use, having been remodeled first as a guard house, and then for Texas Southmost College as a chemistry building, and then as an art building.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-90
  • Survey number: HABS TX-3278
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000881.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0438.photos.156551p
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