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1275 Gruene Road The Gruene Mansion Inn began as H.D. Gruene’s historic eastlake victorian home and cotton plantation. All accommodations are century-old barns and homes restored to their Victorian Rustic Elegance.
1281 Gruene Road The legendary Gruene Hall opened its doors in 1878 and has served the community continuously since that time, earning the right to be named the oldest dance hall in Texas. The 6,000-sq. ft. building you see today stands much as it did in the nineteenth century, when it served as the social and entertainment heart of the city. […]
421 South Seguin Avenue Built by the city’s first physician, Dr. Theodore Koester, this is one of the city’s most impressive historic homes, with three stories, 15 rooms, and 18-inch limestone walls. This mid-19th century house, constructed in the new Anglo-American vernacular, also included a kitchen, basement, dumbwaiter, and other architectural innovations for the time […]
447 South Seguin Avenue The elegant, early modern home of Anselm Eiband was restored in the late 1980s and the interior redesigned to serve as office space for Hoffmann Financial.
453 South Seguin Avenue This lot changed hands six times from 1852-1882, with two of those occurring at 10am on 1/2/1882. Anselm Eiband finally built a small Victorian house for his sister on the lot. No ownership changes occurred again until the late 1890s. Now an office building.
480 South Seguin Avenue Wilhelm Schmidt, a wheelright, built carriages and displayed them in this brick building. Now an office building.
494 South Seguin Avenue Johann Jahn was among the first settlers of New Braunfels. He became a renowned furniture maker in the ensuing decades, his reputation spreading to New York. After his death, his son and grandson built this building and continued the business of fine hand-crafted furniture until the 1930s. Some pieces by Johann […]
491 Comal Avenue The home of Ferdinand Lindheimer, internationally known botanist and first editor of the New Braunfels newspaper, is now open to the public by appointment. Construction is typical of the ancient fachwerk the German settlers adapted to Texas cedar and limestone. This property was given to Lindheimer by Prince Carl for guiding settlers […]
480 Comal Avenue The house is an example of the small fachwerk houses made of fired adobe brick and native, hand-hewn cedar timbers built by early settlers. Restored in 1978. Now a private residence.
424 Comal Avenue The Voelcker residence is one of the original fachwerk homes in New Braunfels. It is now part of the Comal Inn Bed & Breakfast, called the New Braunfels Cottage.