Northwest corner of East Madison Street and 15th Street, Southwest corner of East Madison Street and International Boulivard, southern boundry line defined by alley way between International Boulivard and 15th Street.
Private Property
No
Marker Condition
In Situ
Marker Size
18" x 28"
Marker Text
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.