The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, and Its Builders ...
Author: Lower Rio Grande valley and its builders, Inc
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 345
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Author: Lower Rio Grande valley and its builders, Inc
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 345
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 690
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Published: 1931
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. Eugene George
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1623494532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1865, Heinrich Portscheller emigrated to Mexico from his native Germany, perhaps motivated by a desire to avoid compulsory military service in the Austro-Prussian War. The scion of a well-known family of masons and master builders, he had the misfortune to disembark at Veracruz during the Franco-Mexican War. Portscheller and his traveling companion were impressed into the imperialist forces and sent to northern Mexico. Sometime following the Battle of Santa Gertrudis in1866, Portscheller deserted the army and eventually made a place for himself in Roma, a small town in Starr County, Texas. Over the next decades, Portscheller acquired a reputation as a master builder and architect. He brought to the Lower Rio Grande Valley his long heritage of Old World building knowledge and skills and integrated them with the practices of local Mexican construction and vernacular architecture. However, despite his many contributions to the distinctive architecture of Roma and surrounding places, by the mid-twentieth century he was largely forgotten. During nearly fifty years of historical sleuthing in South Texas and Germany, W. Eugene George reconstructed many of the details of the life and career of this important South Texas craftsman. Containing editorial contributions by Mary Carolyn Hollers George and featuring a foreword by Mariá Eugenia Guerra and a concluding assessment by noted architectural historian Stephen Fox, Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande: Heinrich Portscheller at last permits a long-overdue appreciation of the legacy of this influential architect and builder of the Texas-Mexico borderlands.
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 345
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pino Shah
Publisher: ArtByPino.com
Published: 2017-09-14
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 0997998423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough 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.
Author: Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 680
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the people of the Santa Anita Land Grant.
Author: Frank Cushman Pierce
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 200
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 344
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 214
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