Texas Historical Marker

Howard L. Bass Home

Rio Grande City · Starr County · placed 1966 · Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

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Starr County, Texas

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Built 1877 of lumber from sunken steamboat; mesquite block flooring; handmade brick. Home and business house of John Peter Kelsey, Starr County judge; large landowner who came from New York in 1848. Acquired by L.

R. Brooks 1937; and by Howard L. Bass in 1954.

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