HISTORIC TEXAS 19TH CENTURY VERNACULAR FARM...What is a Historic Texas Farm and Ranch Complex? • Vernacular architecture • Use of Indigenous building materials • First Phase

HISTORIC TEXAS 19TH CENTURY VERNACULAR FARM

AND RANCH COMPLEXES

What is a Historic Texas Farm and Ranch Complex?

• Vernacular architecture

• Use of Indigenous building materials

• First Phase Settlement

• Ethnic and cultural diversity 1718- 1890s

Historic Basis Statement• Complexes represent the earliest founding families of San

Antonio and area

• ALL ethnicities represented, not limited to any one ethnic group, including Spanish, Mexican, Tejano, Texian, German, Irish, Anglo, Swedish, French, among others

• Complexes represent significant persons and families on a local, area, regional, state-wide, and national basis

• Complexes are highly endangered

• Represent the last visual vestiges of these cultural groups

• All areas of city, county, and ETJ represented

Hispanic Complexes: Spanish, Mexican, and Tejano

De la Garza/Cantu Elmendorf/La Vernia Road

Lt. Col. Ygnacio Perez Stone Rancho Site 41BX274: Jacal Medina River at Applewhite Road

Seguin/Tarin Complex E. Loop 1604

Casa Vieja/James Trueheart House Blue Wing Road

Francisco/Maximo Cadena House Prue Road

Blas Herrera Farm and Ranch 41BX672 Old Somerset Road

Ruiz-Herrera Farm and Ranch:41BX670 Quesenberry Road

Fernando Rodriguez Mauermann Road

Rodriguez/Leal/Dwyer House Southwest Military Drive

Borregas Road House S Loop 1604 E

Perez-Linn Complex 41BX549 Highway 16 SouthCadena House off Scenic Loop Road

Menchaca House/ La Quinta de las Piedras

Scenic Loop Road

Anglo Settlement

Enoch Jones Complex Von Ormy Castle: 41BX664

Von Ormy Road

Harrison and Brown Stage Coach Stop Evans Road at IH-35 North

John S. Harrison House Evans Road

Presnall/Watson House 41BX538 Neal Road

William Jackson House Callaghan Road

William Davenport House East Evans Road

Robert B. Evans House Evans Road

James Watson Home Pleasanton Road

German Settlement

Ackerman/Mayor Jack White House Seguin Road

Emil Klar Property: 41BX711 Culebra Road

Wallerath/Pfeil Trainer Hale Road

John Moos Farm and Ranch “Stonestead” IH10

William Heidemann Complex Toutant Beauregard Road

Victor Hanz Log Cabin and House Vogel Valley Road

Staudt House Bulverde Road

Braun RoadFriedrich Braun House Leslie Road

Crenwelge Braun Complex Braun Road

Max Aue Stagecoach Inn and Complex Boerne Stage Road, Leon Springs

Von Plehwe Complex Boerne Stage Road

KARL RUEMPEL HOMESTEAD FM1560

August Pieper House Bulverde Road

Charles William Klemcke House Senior Road

Klemcke House Senior Road

James Votaw House Mission Road

Louis Voelcker Farm/Dairy Voelcker Lane

Tezel Complex Forest Village

Gugger/Connaly House Old Bandera Road,

Helotes

Ludwig Vogel Farm and Ranch Vogel Valley

Anton Krause Log Cabin Pearsall Road

Joseph Woller Farm and Ranch Woller Road

Munk Home 41BX273 Jett Road

Onion Huebner House Bandera Road

Noyes Road

Heermann Store Loop 1604

George Weimer (Wehmeyer?) Ranch

Leslie Road

Van Raub School Dietz Elkhorn Road

Kurz Farmhouse/Carruther’s Store Smith Road, Senior

Classen House/Canyon Springs Golf Club Wilderness Oak

Zizelmann House Government Canyon

Galm Road

Kurtz House/Stumberg Place Somerset Road

Ernst House Old Somerset Road

SCOTTISH SETTLEMENT

George Marnoch House Scenic Loop Road

IRISH SETTLEMENT

KENNY HOUSE Bexar Road

FRENCH SETTLEMENT

Alphonse Perrin House Swans Landing

Ball- O’Banion House Old Frio City Road

POLISH SETTLEMENT

Felix Kiolbassa Home La Vernia Road

Tudyk Kravitz House Pittman Road

St. Hedwig

Unknown Affiliation

Bulverde Road Dos Cerros:(Two Hills) Old Boerne Stage Road

MacDonna LaCoste Road

South Flores Street Complex Loop 1604

Properties in the ETJ

COMAL COUNTY

Louis Forshage and Lina Gerhart Forshage Home Natural Bridge Caverns Road

Guadalupe County

Karl Nietzke House Bolton Road

Herman Schmoekel Complex “Opa’s House” Schmoekel Road

Limecrete House Zuehl Road

Guadalupe Co. #4 Zuehl Road

Guadalupe Co. #5 off Pfannstiel Road

Medina County

FM 471

Medina #2 FM 471

Medina Co. # 3 Haby House FM 471

Albert Bourquin Homestead Medina County #4 CR Bourquin Lane

Medina #5 FM 471

William Bourquin Home #6 Bourquin Lane

Otto Wurzbach #7 CR 381

Wilson County

Juan Smith Tarin House FM 1303