Tour Category: Driving

480 South Seguin Ave. Wilhelm Schmidt, a wheelright, built carriages and displayed them in this brick building. Now an office building.    

494 South Seguin Ave. 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 […]

453 South Seguin Ave 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.    

447 South Seguin Ave. 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.    

421 South Seguin Ave. 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 […]

353 South Seguin Avenue German immigrant farmers and field workers would join together for social activities here. Duckpin bowling became quite popular. The lanes for the bowling alley still exist today, but are now used as a dance floor. Other popular activities at the social club were billiards and card games, especially the card game […]

283 South Seguin Avenue A furniture company since its construction by local contractor, A. Moeller. This wonderful building contains original pressed tin ceilings, maple strip floors, hand-painted tile entrance, wood staircase, and a hand-operated Otis freight elevator. Now Johnson Furniture.

275 South Seguin Avenue Built by A. Moeller and owned by his brother Ed Moeller, this café and bus station features the southwestern style of stucco and hollow tile. The front façade has been remodeled with the addition of a modern canopy. Now Celebrations.

251 South Seguin Avenue This adobe brick and cedar beam home is situated on a lot that was deeded to colonist Christoph Luentzel. It was first built in 1850 by Heinrich Bevenroth and enlarged by later owners Heinrich C. Pohlmann, Mrs. Elisabeth Gehrung, Edmond Schramm, and August Pursch. Now an office building.  

221 South Seguin Avenue This Victorian building has served as a general store as well as specialty retail stores and service operations. There is a private residence on the second floor. This building housed Mesker Brothers Iron Works of St. Louis, Missouri, and George L. Mesker Company of Evansville, Indiana, who specialized in ornamental sheet-metal […]