{"nrhp_refnum":"70000743","name":"Klein, Stephen, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"131 S. Seguin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Braunfels","county":"Comal County","state":"TX","lat":29.702874007000048,"lon":-98.12348318699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-08-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story stuccoed fachwerk cottage at 131 South Seguin Street in New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas, built in 1846 by Stephen Klein in the German settler style.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a typical example of the structures built by German immigrants in Texas during the Republic era and into the 1870s and 1880s. Its full-width inset front porch and rear lean-to give it a typical silhouette. The building is unrestored, and its timber and limestone rubble fachwerk shows through the stucco.","narrative":"Built in 1846, this one-story stuccoed fachwerk cottage at 131 South Seguin Street in New Braunfels reflects the building tradition of German settlers in Texas. It has an inset front gallery with four bays and simple log posts, a steeply pitched tin roof that is a modern replacement, and a lean-to room at the rear. The overhanging front roof echoes the salt box shape of the rear. Where the stucco is thin, especially at the back, the timber framing and limestone rubble walls show through. Stephen Klein left Hattenheim in 1844 and reached Texas in 1845, building his home a year after Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels founded the town. The 1850 census records him as a farmer in Comal County, and the house passed to a Zachary family, who ran a bakery there. Edwuard Naegelin, Sr., bought it in 1868. It was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1967 and listed in 1970.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1846)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"German settler fachwerk cottage with inset front gallery and salt box profile","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in fair condition, described as unrestored with a modern replacement roof; used as a warehouse (bakery storage) at the time of nomination, with preservation work in progress.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.070429-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/9715/40971545/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/70000743.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000743/c4dbf9719f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000743/c4dbf9719f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_klein_house.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:Stephen_klein_house.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100012669","name":"Central New Braunfels Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/central-new-braunfels-historic-district-100012669/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971545","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107318620"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/comal-county/klein-stephen-house-70000743/"}