{"nrhp_refnum":"12000590","name":"Bertram Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1601 Guadalupe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.280834665000043,"lon":-97.74268492699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, cut limestone commercial building at 1601 Guadalupe Street in downtown Austin, Travis County, Texas, begun in the 1870s by Rudolph C. Bertram as a general merchandise store and wagon yard operation.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A for the building's role in Austin's commercial development, serving as a trading point between the growing city and surrounding rural areas. It later shifted to neighborhood grocery and restaurant uses. It retains a high degree of integrity despite changes in its urban setting.","narrative":"Located at Guadalupe and 16th Streets in downtown Austin, this two-story limestone building began in the 1870s as the general store and wagon yard of German immigrant Rudolph C. Bertram. The structure was enlarged in stages, roughly doubling in width in the 1880s, and its walls combine square-cut stone on the formal south front with rougher stone on the west and east sides. A concrete porch wraps the south and west sides, and a 1990s awning replicates one from about the 1880s. The complex once served farmers and travelers with groceries, feed, farm tools and stables. After Bertram, merchant John Doehler ran the business, followed by a neighborhood grocery that closed in 1914. The building then sat vacant for more than twenty-five years before reopening as a restaurant in 1940. Food service has continued since. Its significance rests on its role in Austin's early commercial growth, and it keeps notable integrity of design, materials and workmanship despite taller, denser surroundings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Rudolph C. Bertram (original builder/proprietor)","architectural_style":"OTHER: Two-part Commercial Block (early Texas Vernacular)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a restaurant; condition described as very good, following a long vacancy in the early 20th century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.844106-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/9737/40973783/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/12000590.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000590/8b6c39f690-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000590/8b6c39f690-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bertram_building_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bertram_building_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973783","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002729"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/bertram-building-12000590/"}