{"nrhp_refnum":"03001416","name":"Arnold Bakery","other_names":["Reuter's Bakery","Black and White Cafe","Southern Barber Shop"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1010 E. Eleventh St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.269610964000037,"lon":-97.72969855099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-01-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story commercial brick building at 1010 East Eleventh Street in the Robertson Hill neighborhood of east Austin, Texas, built circa 1906 as the bake house of the Arnold Bakery and expanded circa 1923.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under commerce as a rare surviving early 20th-century commercial building along a once-lively east Austin corridor. It is tied to the Arnold and Reuter family bakery and to the neighborhood's shift from a mixed-race community to African-American segregation. After the bakery era it served as a restaurant, barber shop and club for the African-American community.","narrative":"Built around 1906 for baker Richard Arnold, this one-story brick building at 1010 East Eleventh Street in Austin served as the bake house for a bakery Arnold founded on the site in 1892. Made of sand-colored local common brick, it has a stepped parapet, limestone windowsills and arched red brick window heads. The structure was lengthened around 1923 to hold a larger oven. Arnold's daughter and son-in-law, Rosa and Max Reuter, took over in 1922 and renamed it Reuter's Bakery. Later the buildings housed the Black & White Café, a barber shop and a recreation club serving African-American patrons. The building sat vacant for years before a 2002 restoration, guided by a 1906 photograph, adapted it for office use and added a modern east wing. It was listed for its connection to commerce and to the changing social makeup of the Robertson Hill neighborhood, and as a rare surviving early commercial building in east Austin.","period_of_significance":"c. 1906-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No Style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Restored in 2002 and used as office space; the restoration was based on a 1906 photograph and includes a non-contributing 2002 east wing. It is a designated Austin Landmark.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.098447-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/9737/40973781/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/03001416.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001416/95ebb3c268-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001416/95ebb3c268-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Happywaffle at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_Bakery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Happywaffle at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_Bakery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973781","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bakery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4794954"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/arnold-bakery-03001416/"}