Details for Breustedt Kitchen
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5091000502
Data
Marker Number | 502 |
Atlas Number | 5091000502 |
Marker Title | Breustedt Kitchen |
Index Entry | Breustedt Kitchen |
Address | 1370 Church Hill Drive |
City | New Braunfels |
County | Comal |
UTM Zone | 14 |
UTM Easting | 587403 |
UTM Northing | 3286879 |
Subject Codes | buildings |
Marker Year | 1973 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | Yes |
Marker Location | Heritage Village, Museum of Texas Handmade Furniture |
Private Property | No |
Marker Condition | In Situ |
Marker Size | Medallion and plate |
Marker Text | Hand-hewn limestone structure floored with wide pipe boards nailed to squared cedar sleepers lying flat on ground; ceilings of adobe and grass plaster on split cedar lath; hand-wrought hinges hang unique casement windows. Stone-lined well. Built in 1860s as detached kitchen for home of Johann Andreas Breustedt (b.1827) and wife Caroline (Dauer) and nine sons and daughters. After removal of house, kitchen was restored (In 1968) by the Ray Whipple family. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1973 |