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CHARLES CHAMPION BUILDING

Port Isabel, Texas

317 Railroad Avenue, Port Isabel
The property on which the Charles Champion store stands dates to the War with Mexico. The building is in use today as the Port Isabel Historical Museum.

Champion Building in Port Isabel, Texas old photo
The Charles Champion General Store. Sign Reads:
The (Key) of the Gulf - Charles Champion Proprietor

The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection, Image RUN08733, Courtesy of The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin


Champion Building in Port Isabel, Texas old photo
The Champion store with lighthouse visible behind.
Postcard courtesy Cruse Aviation


Port Isabel, Texas - Champion Building
Another view of the building. The light colored patches on the facade are paintings of various gulf fish species - a mural painted in 1906.
Postcard courtesy Cruse Aviation

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