{"nrhp_refnum":"71000921","name":"Conn, Adrian Edwards, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of U.S. 281 and SW boundary of courthouse square","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blanco","county":"Blanco County","state":"TX","lat":30.096720577000042,"lon":-98.42275860999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story hand-cut limestone house at the southwest corner of Highway 281 and the street along the courthouse square in Blanco, Blanco County, Texas, with a later frame ell at the rear. Local tradition dates it to the mid-1850s, and it was standing by 1873.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a typical German pioneer building type found only in the Texas Hill Country. It is recognized as the oldest house in the town of Blanco. Its stone house and wooden ell remain substantially unaltered since construction.","narrative":"Built of sixteen-inch-wide hand-cut limestone laid in random ashlar, this one-and-a-half-story house in Blanco, Texas, is regarded locally as the oldest structure in the town. It has two main rooms, an attic chamber, a full-width front porch and a narrow rear kitchen. A board-and-batten frame ell, added around the turn of the century, connects through a wide gallery with turned posts. A windmill, tank and cistern remain on the property. Local tradition places construction in the mid-1850s, but county records burned in 1872, so no document confirms it. The house is known to have existed in 1873, when its first recorded occupant sold it to Dr. T. G. Edwards. His family, including Adrian Edwards Conn, lived there until 1960. The house is listed as a typical German pioneer building type found only in the Texas Hill Country, and it was a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1966. The local chamber of commerce later used it as an office.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date: before 1872)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"German pioneer building type of the Texas Hill Country","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rated in good condition and described as substantially unaltered; occupied and used as the Blanco Chamber of Commerce office (leased). A later note says it was restored in 1972-73, with a new front door, aluminum window frames and asbestos roof shingles added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.528865-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/9713/40971316/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/71000921.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000921/5ef03a9989-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000921/5ef03a9989-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EdwardsConn1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EdwardsConn1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971316","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108073149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/blanco-county/conn-adrian-edwards-house-71000921/"}