{"nrhp_refnum":"79002989","name":"Comfort Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"TX 27","address_restricted":false,"city":"Comfort","county":"Kendall County","state":"TX","lat":29.967646919000032,"lon":-98.9113461794256,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering much of the original townsite of Comfort, an unincorporated Hill Country community in Kendall County, Texas, founded in 1854. It spans about 85 acres and 121 buildings, mostly mid-19th to early 20th century residential and commercial structures.","why_significant":"The district preserves a German-settled Texas town with log, fachwerk, limestone and Victorian vernacular buildings from two phases of development, 1854-1865 and 1879 to the 1920s. It includes the Alfred Giles-designed Faltin Building and the commercial buildings along High Street. Its large open town lots are described as one of its most distinctive features.","narrative":"Comfort, in southwestern Kendall County, Texas, was founded in 1854 by German settlers, and this district covers much of its original townsite. About 85 acres hold 121 buildings, with generous open lots that date to the town's founding. Development came in two phases. The first, from 1854 to about 1865, produced log cabins and fachwerk houses built of local cypress and limestone; the 1854 Heuermann Log Cabin is among the oldest houses in town. The second phase began in 1879, when merchant August Faltin hired San Antonio architect Alfred Giles to design a limestone store, the first building in town by a trained architect. Limestone commercial buildings followed along High Street, including an opera house, store, saloon and hotel. Most residences date from 1890 to 1920 and are Victorian frame houses, many on an ell plan with jigsaw porch detailing. Highway construction in 1932 added newer buildings that are classed as intrusions or compatible.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Alfred Giles (architect of the Faltin Building, 1879)","architectural_style":"Fachwerk (German half-timber), log construction, Victorian and late Victorian vernacular, limestone commercial buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 121 buildings, 77 are contributing, 30 compatible and 14 intrusions. Condition is marked fair to good, and the district was heavily flooded in 1978.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.756805-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/9727/40972758/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79002989.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002989/0dbbaff8a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002989/0dbbaff8a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ComfortTexas4.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ComfortTexas4.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04000911","name":"Comfort Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/comfort-historic-district-boundary-increase-04000911/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972758","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5151681"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/kendall-county/comfort-historic-district-79002989/"}