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El Globo Nuevo is a complex consisting of a one-story border brick style storehouse built in 1897 and operated until 1920 by Mexican immigrants Adolfo Garza-Galvan (1856-1923) and his elder brother, Manuel (1847-1926), and a free-standing folk victorian cottage known as the Garza House built circa 1894. El Globo Nuevo is an early example of Mexican vernacular planning, a primarily one-room-deep sequence of rooms arranged in an l-plan configuration, paired with separate living quarters. The storehouse is plaster-faced brick with a hipped-roof attic above the building’s corner bays. The cottage, while also made with plaster-faced brick, has jerkin-headed gabled roofs. Garza and his wife, Virginia Larrea-Valdez de Garza (1873-1952), lived in the house until her death in 1952, upon which the property passed to her sister, Eloisa Larrea Barreda. The property has since stayed in the Barreda family. |
