The well-proportioned residence with partial second-floor balcony is a large-scale rendition of a Rio Grande City–type cottage that links it to the New Orleans–influenced architecture of Brownsville and Matamoros. Located near the early commercial hub of the city, the gabled, two-story brick dwelling with square-end, high parapet walls that slope to include a rear wing is similar to the demolished house of Henry Clay Davis.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Dr. John G. Campbell/Encarnación Izaguirre-Longoria House", [Rio Grande City, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-SM22.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 287-287.
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