Marker Inscription
Commerce, Architecture
Historic Place
Fernandez, Miguel, Hide Yard
The landmarks the nation chose to remember.
About this site
Fernandez, Miguel, Hide Yard is a historic place in Brownsville, Cameron County, dedicated in 1990. 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 25.9029, -97.4970 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, Public Market and Town Hall, and Immaculate Conception Church.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2090001485. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Miguel Fernandez Hide Yard, known as "El Almacen," was established in the 1880s-1890s by Spanish merchant Miguel Fernandez as a combination store and warehouse serving the Texas Gulf Coast cattle trade, where ranchers exchanged hides and bones for supplies. Built in the local Border Brick style, the L-plan building features full-height brick pilasters, corbeled brickwork, and interior segmental arches, and is one of the few survivors of downtown Brownsville's historic Market Square. The City of Brownsville renovated it in 1987, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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