Samuel Wallace Brooks

Samuel Wallace Brooks (1829-February 15, 1903) 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 was involved in levee building. 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 Louis Kowalski House (1893) at 507 East Elizabeth Street Benjamin Kowalski served as mayor of Brownsville (List of mayors of Brownsville, Texas)

Browne-Wagner House at 245 East Saint Charles Street Church of the Advent in Brownsville (1877), demolished Josephine G. Browne house (1894) in Brownsville Frank B. Armstrong house (1896) in Brownsville, demolished