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Kinney County Heritage Museum (Filippone Building)

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1885, Giovanni Cassinelli and Giovanni Filippone. James St. at Riordon St.

Italian immigrant stonemasons Cassinelli and Filippone, who had come to Kinney County to work on Fort Clark (EL8), built this six-sided two-story former store of roughly shaped limestone. The narrow front features a wrought-iron balcony over the entrance doors, and a metal cornice extends around the building under the hipped roof. The three first-floor doors have shallow segmental stone arches. In 1887, Cassinelli moved to Del Rio. Filippone and his family remained in Brackettville and operated a store on the ground floor of the building, living upstairs. The one-story, five-sided addition was built in the early twentieth century. The building is now the Kinney County Heritage Museum.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Kinney County Courthouse
Fort Clark
Black Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery (Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery)
Alamo Village

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Kinney County Heritage Museum (Filippone Building)", [Brackettville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EL7.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 425-425.

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