Rock/Gomez House
Item
- Title
- Rock/Gomez House
- City
- Brownsville, Texas, United States
- Address
- 500 E Levee St, Brownsville, TX 78520
- GPS
- 25.906040082557713, -97.5039233349827
- Country
- United States
- Date Created
- ca. 1900
- Century
- 20th Century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Cultural Context
- American
- Description
- Built circa 1900 for Refugia Rock, the widow of Herman S. Rock (a customs hide inspector), the one-story house has parapet gables and a molded cornice across the chimney and façade, indicating Mexican Colonial and Border Brick style architectural influences. The Gomez family owned the house from 1915-1996. The apartment and brick wall in the back yard were added by the Gomez family.- Source: Brownsville Historical Association
- Source
- John P. White Collection Box 3 File 38
- Photographer
- John P. White
- Date of Photography
- Nov-77
- Rights Holder
- The John P. White Estate
- Access Rights
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
- Item sets
- John P. White Collection
“Rock/Gomez House”, John P. White Collection, accessed September 19, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/jpwhite/item/51997