{"nrhp_refnum":"78002896","name":"Round Mountain Stage-Coach Inn and Stable","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 962 off U.S. 281","address_restricted":false,"city":"Round Mountain","county":"Blanco County","state":"TX","lat":30.428229561000023,"lon":-98.33990971599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Agriculture","Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture","Communications","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story limestone stagecoach inn and a stone livery stable with a meeting room above, on Ranch Road 962 just off Highway 281 at Round Mountain, Blanco County, Texas. The inn was first built in 1874 by Elitha Smith Martin.","why_significant":"The inn served as the hub of the Round Mountain community and as an overnight stop on the Austin to Llano stagecoach line. It also housed a store and post office run by the Martin family, and the room above the stable was a community gathering place. The buildings are described as exceptionally fine examples of period architecture with Georgian influence and refinements unusual in rural Texas.","narrative":"Built of locally quarried limestone with cypress woodwork milled at nearby Cypress Mill, this two-story L-shaped inn and its companion stone livery stable sit beside Cypress Creek in Round Mountain, Blanco County. Widowed Elitha Martin built the inn in 1874 and ran it with her son David, along with a general store and post office. The complex was an overnight stop on the Austin to Llano stagecoach line and served cowboys, cotton haulers and other travelers, including Governor James Hogg. The room above the stable hosted votes, dances, and lodge and church meetings; the Frontier Lodge of the I.O.O.F. added that second story in 1882. The store is gone, and the inn lost its double gallery and original kitchen, but plastered and scored walls, cypress stairs and the bracketed stable eaves survive. The inn stood empty for nearly thirty years before restoration began in the 1970s, while the stable still needed repointing and a new roof.","period_of_significance":"1874-1882","architect_builder":"Elitha Smith Martin","architectural_style":"Georgian influence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Inn had been uninhabited for almost thirty years before a 1971 purchase; restoration under way in 1977, and the stable was extensively decayed. Intended as the owners' permanent home.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.995882-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/9713/40971314/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/78002896.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971314","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000426"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/blanco-county/round-mountain-stage-coach-inn-and-stable-78002896/"}