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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
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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…
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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27WI_brownsville-home-of-charles-stillman_Brownsville-TX.html
Founder of Brownsville and partner in firm of M. Kenedy and Company, which opened the Rio Grande to steamboat navigation and controlled much of the commerce of Northern Mexico, 1848-1868.
This house, erected about 1850,
was the birthplace of
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27WF_stillman-house-residencia-stillman_Brownsville-TX.html
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Built in 1850 in Greek Revival style by Henry Miller, who operated the nearby Miller Hotel, for Brownville founder, Charles Stillman, and his new bride, Elizabeth.
They occupied the house until 1853 and their first two children were bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27WE_stillman-house-museum_Brownsville-TX.html
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Built in 1850, this Greek Revival home was occupied in succession by Charles Stillman and his family; Thomas Carson, longtime Brownsville Mayor; and the Manuel Trevino de los Santos Coy family. At one time, it housed the Mexican Consula…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27WD_stillman-house_Brownsville-TX.html
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Built in 1851 for Henry Miller, the cottage was first occupied by Brownsville's founder, Charles Stillman, and later owned by Manuel Trevino de los Santos Coy.
In 1958, Chauncey D. Stillman, great-grandson of Charles, purchased the h…