Compiled by Jose Cazares and Javier R Garcia
On July 22, 1951- A 73-year old house, built of Louisiana cypress, that once housed refugees from a Mexican War, was moved.
Thanks to Reynaldo Alaniz for sharing this newsclippingss
It was moved to make way for a school to be erected by the Immaculate Conception Church. Complete with etched glass transoms and a cistern inside, the house was built on the corner of 13th and Jefferson streets in 1878, builder and owner was S. W. Brooks, construction engineer who also built the old Opera house in Brownsville and the Fort Brown hospital, now Texas Southmost College’s administration building.
Five generations lived in the rugged old house, from Mr Brooks the house passed to Charles Falgout, his step son, and was known as the old Falgout House.
Mrs Falgout died in 1948, having lived most of her life in the house, she was there when a Mexican revolution before World War 1, drove refugees to Brownsville. The Falgouts offered their home as sanctuary for the homeless. She was there when bullets from a Fort Brown race riot whistled through the old house.
The house was moved to the corner of 13th and Jackson streets, where it’s new owner, Jose Garcia, remodeled it for his son, a doctor, to live in.
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DeleteThanks for sharing! Several years ago i was able to step inside the house before they remodeled it and after.. beautiful..
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