Samuel Wallace Brooks
Samuel Wallace Brooks was an American architect and engineer. His later career was in Brownsville, Texas. The home he built for himself, Samuel Brooks House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
He was born in Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Ohio as a child. He lived in New Orleans before the American Civil War. In 1863 he moved to Matamoros in Tamaulipas where he lived until 1878, when he relocated across the Rio Grande to Brownsville, Texas. He designed the Post Hospital at Fort Brown. He was involved in levee building.
A historical marker commemorates the history of the S. W. Brooks Residence. It is at 623 East St. Charles Street in Brownsville.
He filed a patent for an improvement on machines making paving stones.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has a collection of documents related to Brooks. It was moved in 1987.
Works
- Post Hospital at 1825 May Street in Brownsville
- Second Starr County Courthouse
- Louis Kowalski House at 507 East Elizabeth Street Benjamin Kowalski served as mayor of Brownsville
- Browne-Wagner House at 245 East Saint Charles Street
- Church of the Advent in Brownsville, demolished
- Josephine G. Browne house in Brownsville
- Frank B. Armstrong house in Brownsville, demolished