This freestanding, two-story, buff brick commercial-residential building has two major street elevations with flat-arched door openings, and transoms guarded by metal bars. These elevations are delineated by two-story brick pilasters with molded brick bases in the Brownsville-Matamoros tradition. A timid, slightly projecting cornice gives the building an unfinished appearance atop. Vacated for many years, it was rehabilitated by the city for public use.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Rodríguez Store", [Hidalgo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HL3.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 304-305.
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