Roma Historic District

The Roma Historic District in Roma, Texas protects an unblemished case of a bordertown in the lower Rio Grande valley. The town was an essential port and transshipment point on the Rio Grande from 1829 to the 1880s. The design of Roma reflects its sister city of Ciudad Mier on the Mexican side of the waterway, and also Guerrero Viejo upriver. Roma is striking for its structures of waterway sandstone, caliche limestone and shaped block, utilizing rejoneado and sillar workmanship systems. The two techniques utilize an external complete of harsh lime mortar point by point with groups of smooth hued mortar, normal for northern Mexico.

Roma likewise includes imaginative utilization of formed block, conveyed to Roma by German settler Enrique Portscheller, who utilized strategies of level block material from Monterrey to Mier, at that point built up an ornamental block utilized as a part of Roma, Mier, Rio Grande City and Laredo. Portscheller composed structures with his items and utilized fashioned iron overhangs in a way reminiscent of both New Orleans and Monterrey. Roma saves the heft of his surviving work.