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1.
Miiller's
Meats Building
Notice the seven large granite pillars in front of this
vintage 1892 building. Several businesses have been housed
here. In 1904 the Llano Club, a private club, did a booming
business. Prior to World War II it housed the Coca-Cola
Bottling Company. Since 1944 the building has served as a
locker plant, and
presently the building is home to.
2. The
Dabbs Hotel
Two doors east of the museum, the Dabbs
Hotel is the last standing railroad hotel. It began
operation in 1907 and was a home away from home for railroad
crewman, who stayed overnight and returned to Austin the
next day.
3.
Llano County Museum
The museum is housed in the old Bruhl
Drugstore and gives a glimpse of Llano when it was a
"boomtown". Hours are June, July & August 10-12 a.m. and
1:30 - 5:30 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday, Sunday 1:30 - 5:30 p.m..
September through May, Wednesday- Saturday 10:00- 12:00 a.m.
& 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. and Sunday 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
4.
Lone Star Land
Company
Built in the early 1920's as a Texaco Service Station, the
first covered service station between San Antonio and Llano.
5. The Badu House
This classic Italian Renaissance style building was
built as First National Bank of Llano in 1891. In 1898 a
French mineralogist, N. J. Badu,
purchased the building for his family home. The
Badu House has been restored as
a bed and breakfast,
restaurant and club. The bar in the lounge has a top in
Llanite, a stone found nowhere
in the world but Llano County. It is the largest assembly of
polished Llanite in the world.
6.
Llano Fine Arts Guild, Inc.
The Guild was founded in 1963 to promote the work of Llano
artist. Works by members are on exhibit at the Guild Gallery
which is open 10 am - 4 p.m., Monday -Saturday and 1 p.m. -
4 p.m. on Sunday.
7. Jeannette's
Homestyle Bakery
This 1910 Spanish style stucco building originally
housed the Cassaday - Grey
Granite Company, and was erected during the peak of the
booming granite industry in Llano. The
Cassaday Co. was the first to
use motor transportation for hauling granite.
8.
Llano County Library
The
three one story buildings were built in 1904. They have
housed a variety of businesses, including
Hargon Furniture, Lange
Furniture, Goodman Liquor Company, Southern Mercantile
(1908), Pessell's Drug Goods,
Hackworth's Variety, C. Bailey's Domino Hall, S.
Roundtree's Palace Bar (1916), a
Studebaker agency (1920's) as well as pool halls and cafes.
9. Corner Drug
Although several architectural changes have been made,
this site has operated as the Corner Drug since 1898. It is
one of the three oldest businesses in Llano still operating
under the same name.
10. The Haynie Block
Designed by A. O. Watson of Austin for Elizabeth Haynie
of Llano in 1882. The first telephone switchboard in Llano
was located here in the 1880's. This series of buildings has
housed professionals and merchants as well as a bank for 30
years. During the 1940's, the county hospital occupied the
entire second floor.
11. Stonewall Pizzeria
This part of the Haynie Hotel & Home National Bank
building property was occupied by W. J. Forman, "the red hot
cash man", who had a dry goods store in 1892.
12. Jim's Jewelry,
Town Square Emporium
& Gingerbread House
These three stone buildings are believed to be among the
oldest on the courthouse square, perhaps dating to the late
1870's.
13. Acme Dry Goods
The present building was constructed of red brick in 1892.
The Acme has been in the building since 1923. A visit to
Acme will take you back in time. Still
in daily use is a brass cash register over 100 years old.
Many of the old fixtures are on display. Acme Dry
Goods is one of the three oldest businesses in Llano still
operating under the same name.
14. Buttery Storage
Directly West of the old Lan
-Tex Theater, erected in 1880, one of the earliest surviving
structures on the
Town Square. Now
used for storage, the past uses for this building are quite
varied. It has been used as a meeting site for the Llano
Masonic Lodge and the back section of the cellar was used as
a jail. For a while it housed Mr.
Pessels mercantile store, then J. Duff Brown's drug
store. A furniture store and undertaking business occupied
this building until 1894. It has also served as the Martin
Telephone Company, a hardware store, confectionery store,
millinery shop, grocery store and as an annex for the
Southern Hotel's overflow.
15. Southern Hotel
Now Buttery Hardware offices, this stagecoach stop was
built in 1880 as a two story building. The third story I was
added in 1883 by attorney Col. W. A .H. Miller. The wide
porches provided a welcome rest for the hotel's many guests.
Buttery Hardware is one of the three oldest businesses in
Llano still operating under the same name.
16.
The Llano News
Built in 1890, the Bon Ton Barber
& Bath provided the only commercial bath facilities in town.
17.
Llano County
Courthouse
A
block for the courthouse was laid off & noted on the town
plat, soon after the county was organized in 1856, but it
was a long time before a courthouse was actually built. The
original building completed in 1885 served Llano well until
it was destroyed by fire on January 22, 1892. It is one of
three original Texas Courthouses without additions. The
Courthouse you see today was completed in 1893 at a cost of
$35,000. Under the granite boulders on the west side of the
structure is a time capsule to be opened in 2056, Llano's
Bicentennial. Of the 288 county courthouses in Texas, only
66 built prior to 1900 remain. Llano's is the 39th oldest in
Texas.
18.
Confederate
Monument
This
tribute to those from Texas who served in the Civil War was
sculptured and erected by James K.
Finlay & Sons. The two sons used their father as the
model. Governor James E. Ferguson dedicated the imposing
work in 1916.
19.
Vietnam Monument
Dedicated on Veterans Day, November 11, 1987, this memorial
to those who served in Vietnam was donated by Llano's
American Legion Post #370 and the Auxiliary.
20. World War I Monument
Charging "over the top" is the heroic bronze World War I
monument sculptured by Frank Teich,
a nationally famous German artist who owned the nearby town
of
Teichville.
Governor Dan Moody dedicated the monument in 1928.
21.
Masonic Temple (Cassandra's Antique Mall)
This
interesting stone building on the corner was built in 1907
as the Masonic Temple. The Lodge was organized in 1860 and
the temple still occupies the second floor. Ask inside to
see one of the few remaining hand crank elevators.
22.
Charlie's Store
This
series of buildings date back to 1897. The Corner building
occupied a dry goods business until 1908, and was then
occupied by Llano National Bank. The two-story building
constructed in 1890 first held a saddle and harness shop,
then dry goods, a saloon, drugstore and at one time the
Tourist's Hotel.
23.
Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio
The building was constructed for F. J. Smith and Company as
a storage facility in 1883 and ranks among the oldest
buildings in the district. In 1887, the Masons purchased the
second story and used it for 21 years as their lodge. Note
the unique 50-year-old bay window.
24.
Pickney's
On this site in 1856 Llano's only "picket house store"
was built. Our first post office was located here until
1866. Beginning in 1899 several physicians
officed at this location.
25. The Fraser House
This unique solid granite building was constructed
around 1900 by William Fraser for his new wife Laura. He was
one of 23 master stone cutters brought to Texas from
Scotland to complete construction of the state capitol
building.
26. Old Llano Jail
Built in 1895 from Llano County granite, this Romanesque
Revival jail sported a red roof that inmates referred to as
"Red Top". The gallows still remain on the third & fourth
floors. The building is maintained by the Llano Chapter of
the DRT.
27.
Grace Episcopal Church
Built to house the Llano Academy in 1881, the venture failed
and it was purchased in 1883 by the West Texas Missionary
District of the Episcopal Church. The building was completed
in 1889.
28. Mclnnis House
The McInnis home at 1004 Bayley
Street was built in 1882 by Llano entrepreneur R. A.
McInnis. McInnis was one of the city's
first councilmen, sheriff, furniture and casket store owner,
and railroad president. The home remained in the McInnis
family for 110 years until it was purchased by the Weldon
Seeinger family in 1992.
As you enjoy the Walking Tour of Llano, we hope you
will I gain a sense of our traditions. Many other buildings
in town are worth your notice. Take your time in Llano and
enjoy it all!
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