{"nrhp_refnum":"93000196","name":"Fort Ringgold Historic District","other_names":["Ringgold Barracks","Camp Ringgold","Fort Ringgold"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Rio Grande City School grounds, 1/4 mi. SE of jct. of US 83 and TX 755","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rio Grande City","county":"Starr County","state":"TX","lat":26.374312335500065,"lon":-98.80835937009383,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-03-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A military post historic district of about 75 acres at the southeast edge of Rio Grande City, Starr County, Texas. The U.S. Army established Fort Ringgold in 1848 and used it until 1944, and it is now a school campus.","why_significant":"The district is nominated at the state level for its association with military activity along the Lower Rio Grande and for its architecture. It preserves a cohesive grouping of Army buildings from the 1869-1875 expansion, the 1890s and the 1920s around an open parade ground. Its round-arched verandas reflect regional masonry traditions.","narrative":"Fort Ringgold, at the southeast edge of Rio Grande City, Texas, was a U.S. Army post begun in 1848 and decommissioned in 1944. Four years later the local school district bought it and turned it into a school campus, which it still is. The historic district covers about 75 acres and includes 41 contributing resources, among them barracks, officers' quarters, a hospital, a bakery, a guardhouse and a flag pole, grouped around a large open parade ground. Most are one- or two-story brick buildings, and many have round-arched verandas that earlier accounts called Moorish. Building campaigns after the Army's 1869 decision to expand the post, in the 1890s and in the 1920s are all represented. The oldest surviving building is the Commandant's Quarters, known locally as the Lee House. The district was listed for its role in military activity along the Lower Rio Grande and for its architecture, despite later school-era alterations.","period_of_significance":"1848-1944","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: vernacular: military","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the local school district and used as an educational complex since 1948; the district is described as in good condition, though many buildings were altered during school conversion.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.514292-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9733/40973379/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/93000196.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000196/be9b76be64-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000196/be9b76be64-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Pi3.124","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Texas_historical_marker_Fort_Ringgold_under_the_confederacy.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi3.124</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Texas_historical_marker_Fort_Ringgold_under_the_confederacy.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973379","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999610"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/starr-county/fort-ringgold-historic-district-93000196/"}