Frances Heller built this house sometime immediately after his purchase of the 500 acres of land in 1852.  Although the primary rooms of the house are enclosed with rubble stone construction, there is a unusual combination of wood structure, that from the outset of restoration caused some consternation.  Much discussion was had concerning the question that it seemed like the house was built by a carpenter and not a mason.  Further research did in fact reveal the Frances Heller was a finish carpenter in his homeland of Alsace, then a part of Germany and that he had plied that trade in Philidelphia before coming to Texas. The restoration began in 2013 and is ongoing.

Other entrees telling the story of the Heller House restoration will, hopefully, appear in  my BLOG as time permits. 

The Kahn & Stanzel Building has served as one of the anchors the northwest corner of the Lavaca County Courthouse square in Hallettsville, Texas, since its construction in 1890. The two story stone Italianate, Neo-Grec and Romanesque Revival building today has been restored to its beginnings when it was designed by the famed Texas architect, James Riely Gordon. In November of 2014 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

This little cottage constructed from local sandstone began its life in the 1850's.  It was painstakingly restored by its new owners and simply furnished with period furniture to create a weekend retreat with not too much and everything.

This house began as a one room log cabin near what would become Flatonia, sometime before the Civil War.  Through the nineteenth century it added rooms twice until around the turn of the century the log room was buried beneath a skin of the late Victorian period.   In danger of being razed, a family with great foresight and fortitude took on the huge task of moving it 45 miles to north of Round Top to begin a new life that will take it well into the 21st century.