Archives: Tours
100 Main Plaza This courthouse was designed by J. Riely Gordon, a prolific and sometimes controversial architect of Texas courthouses. The beautiful Romanesque Revival style includes robust columns, arched doorways, and a working bell tower that sounds the hour. Displays of local artifacts can be viewed in the Courthouse Annex.
The Main Plaza was drawn into the original city plans in 1845. The fountain was added in 1895 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of New Braunfels. High curbs were integrated into the fountain design to keep citizens from using it to water their horses. The Bandstand, first called the Music Pavilion, was […]
136 North Castell Avenue The grand opening of this short-lived theater was December 23, 1924. It closed in 1932. Ma’s Café moved in, until it closed in 1982. Now Myron’s Prime Steakhouse.
Located on the 100 block of North Castell Avenue (next to McAdoo’s Seafood Company) one block from Main Plaza.
196 North Castell Avenue President Woodrow Wilson signed a law appropriating $50,000 to build a post office building in New Braunfels. Secretary of State William G. McAdoo custom ordered this building. Previously, various homes and businesses had served the community as post offices. This new site served multiple purposes by renting business offices as well […]
386 North Castell Street This site was originally the first encampment on the bluff, where a cannon was fired in the morning and at night to scare Indians away. The sound of cannons would soon be replaced with bells, as the cornerstone of this church was laid in 1871. The church has gone through two […]
230 West Mill Street This two-story home has a large basement built out of stone, with 8-foot-high ceilings. Johann Jahn laid black walnut floors, out of 1’ wide by 20’ long planks, and built a black walnut staircase to the second story. Mr. Pfeuffer was a tanner by trade and did his tanning work in […]
256 West Mill Street This house was built by master mason Johann Friedrich Geue on a lot that was part of the original Adelsverein Public Drawing held in April of 1845. The walls are three bricks thick and have no studs. The only wood in the home is around the door and window frames. Now […]
430 West Mill Street New Braunfels Academy was established around 1856 and incorporated in 1858, when the citizens of New Braunfels voted unanimously to support their school system with a self-imposed tax. This was eighteen years before the Constitution of 1876 provided for a school taxation throughout Texas. The current structure was erected in 1913 […]
521 West San Antonio Street This early 1900s equipped barbershop contains hundreds of miniature, hand-carved circus figures and pictures made of lapidary stones. Tours are available on request.