Archives: Tours
135 North Market Avenue This fachwerk house belonging to Joseph Klein was relocated to this site when the Prince Solms Inn replaced it on the East San Antonio Street site. Now a cottage rental.
295 East Mill Street This home was built of native cut stone. The owner, Anselm Eiband, edited the local newspaper after Ferdinand Lindheimer retired in 1872. Now an office building.
273 East Mill Street Originally built in 1853 by Heinrich Hohmann of plastered stone and brick. The city’s first Western Union telegraph office was housed here by 1865. Subsequent owner Wilhelm Fischer, a tailor and herb specialist, probably added the wood siding, porch, and gingerbread woodwork in the 1880s. Now an office building.
197 East Mill Street This limestone and brick house was built with 20-inch walls. The front door and windows are original. Now an office building.
202 North Seguin Avenue Local architect, Jeremiah Schmidt, designed this art deco style building. The interior is virtually unchanged since its construction, including the original lighting fixtures, tile floors, and wood interiors.
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.