{"nrhp_refnum":"02001212","name":"Michaelis, M.G., Ranch","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3600 FM 150 West","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kyle","county":"Hays County","state":"TX","lat":30.077722933000047,"lon":-97.92613916867842,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 288-acre ranch district in Kyle, Hays County, Texas, centered on a homestead purchased in 1898 by Max Gustav Michaelis Sr. It includes a Queen Anne style house (built 1898, remodeled 1902), barns, sheds, pens, fences, walls and pastures.","why_significant":"The ranch is tied to the agricultural heritage of Hays County, first through Michaelis's large mule-breeding business and later through Charolais cattle breeding and exhibition. The house is described as an unusually fine rural example of Queen Anne style, and the barns, pens and rock and cedar fences reflect traditional ranching practices. Historic features date from 1898 through 1955.","narrative":"This 288-acre ranch near Kyle in Hays County, Texas, began in 1898 when Max Gustav Michaelis Sr. acquired the land. Its focal point is a one-story Modified L-plan house with Queen Anne detailing, including a wrap-around porch, bay window, patterned shingles and a turreted gazebo. The house was built in 1898 and remodeled in 1902, and descendants of the founder have lived in it ever since. Around it stand stone and frame barns, open sheds, silos, pens, a mule scale, a well and an old gasoline pump, along with dry-stack rock walls and interlocking cedar fences. Michaelis built a large business breeding mules, which were sold to the U.S. military and exported to mines and plantations abroad. After a fire destroyed the great barn in the mid-1930s, smaller barns and sheds replaced it. From 1955 the ranch became known for breeding and exhibiting Charolais cattle. The district counts 27 contributing and 6 noncontributing resources.","period_of_significance":"1898-1955","architect_builder":"Built by M. G. Michaelis Sr. (house)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; no style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a working ranch and single dwelling; the house has been continuously occupied by the founder's descendants for more than 100 years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.047841-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/9725/40972539/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/02001212.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001212/2af5de6c6b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001212/2af5de6c6b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bullcreek42","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_Michaelis_Ranch_in_Hays_County,_Texas_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bullcreek42</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_Michaelis_Ranch_in_Hays_County,_Texas_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972539","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelis_Ranch","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6835642"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/hays-county/michaelis-m-g-ranch-02001212/"}