Marker Inscription
Exploration/Settlement, Architecture, Religion
Historic Place
Immaculate Conception Church
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About this site
Immaculate Conception Church is a historic place in Brownsville, Cameron County, dedicated in 1980. It is one of 7 historic places documented in Cameron County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 194 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 25.9023, -97.4959 near Brownsville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Immaculate Conception Cathedral (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Cameron County Courthouse of 1883-1914, Fernandez, Miguel, Hide Yard, and Public Market and Town Hall.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2080004085. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Immaculate Conception Church in Brownsville was completed in 1856, built from some 250,000 handmade clay bricks fired in the nearby village of Santa Rosalia. Designed in the Gothic Revival style by Father Peter Yves Keralum and served by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, it survived hurricanes and the Civil War and retains 29 original stained-glass windows and its original wooden pews. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orghmdb.org
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