Tour Category: Driving
161 South Castell Avenue Listed in the 1976 Most Historic Places in America, this house was built entirely of local materials by Heinrich Hinmann, for his family of twelve. Now business offices for Communities in Schools of South Central Texas.
193 West San Antonio Street Built over the Phoenix Saloon where alligators enjoyed an outdoor pool, where ladies drank beer in the garden shade, and where Willie Gebhardt’s restaurant became the foundation of the Gebhardt chili empire. He produced the first chili powder in 1896, and in 1908 canned the first chili con carne. […]
367 Main Plaza One of 17 saloons in early downtown New Braunfels. In 1924 the original wood frame building was replaced and housed the Herald-Zeitung, the first English newspaper in town. Today it is once again a saloon, the Black Whale. <href=”https://www.google.com/maps/place/367+Main+Plaza,+New+Braunfels,+TX+78130/@29.702433,-98.124787,17z/data=!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x865cbd5d6e9562e5:0x5470fe4a2061cc35!2s367+Main+Plaza,+New+Braunfels,+TX+78130!3b1!3m1!1s0x865cbd5d6e9562e5:0x5470fe4a2061cc35?hl=en” target=”_blank”>
337 Main Plaza The Mexican American painted mural is a timeline honoring Hispanic heritage from 1600 to 1845. The mural was created by mural artist Alex Rubio of San Antonio Blue Star Contemporary, along with his art students and dedicated on Thursday, May 3 , 2018 at the mural wall of Comal Flower Shop at […]
190 South Seguin Street This Texas-German style house was built for Franz Moreau, a German consul whose fortune was made in the post-Civil War cotton boom. The original house (Town Lot 54, Johann Heinrich Schulze) was constructed in 1845 and demolished in 1905. The current construction was built closer to the street. Now an office […]
228 South Seguin Avenue This Greek Revival home was built as a wedding gift from Franz Moreau for his daughter and son-in-law, Carl W. Groos, a surveyor who would later become Texas Land Commissioner. Now an office building.
240 South Seguin Avenue One the most historical inns of Texas. San Antonio architect Harvey P. Smith designed the building, which was constructed at a cost of $120,343. This hotel was originally known as the Traveler’s Hotel, built by Walter Sipple in the Italian Renaissance Revival style.
260 South Seguin Avenue This lovely Late Victorian – Queen Anne style home was built for Walter Faust, one of New Braunfels’ founders. It was acquired by the First Protestant Church in the 1950s and remodeled in the 1980s for use as a teaching facility. Now known as Heritage House.
296 South Seguin Avenue The founders of New Braunfels held their first church service the first day they arrived to their new home—Good Friday, March 21, 1845. A year later the settlers built a log church on the same site. In 1875, this church of cut limestone from the Landa Quarry was erected near the […]
390 S Seguin Ave The life-sized bronze statue stands in front of the Civic/Convention Center. Prince Carl of Solms Braunfels was a German prince and military officer who served as commissioner general of the first colony that the society, known as the Adlesverien, established in Texas. He arrived on Texas soil on July 1, 1844, […]