{"nrhp_refnum":"86001373","name":"Comal Hotel and Klein-Kuse House","other_names":["Prince Solms Inn","Eggeling Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"295 E. San Antonio and 165 Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Braunfels","county":"Comal County","state":"TX","lat":29.704677434000075,"lon":-98.12326077999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-06-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two historic buildings sharing one half-acre lot in downtown New Braunfels, Texas: the Comal Hotel (Prince Solms Inn), a two-story masonry hotel built 1900-1901, and the Klein-Kuse House, a Fachwerk cottage built about 1850-1852.","why_significant":"Together the buildings document New Braunfels' commercial and residential architecture and the economic patterns of its German families. The hotel is a good example of late Victorian commercial hotel architecture, and the house is a representative example of German Settlement Architecture. Both were owned for almost a century by the linked Kuse and Eggeling families, and Emilie Kuse Eggeling's entrepreneurial management of the hotel is also noted.","narrative":"Two buildings share a half-acre lot between the main plaza and the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas. The Klein-Kuse House, built about 1850-1852 on land granted to Joseph Klein, is a small cottage of Fachwerk (half-timbered) construction with a vernacular Greek Revival porch and finely made thin paneled doors. Around 1900 it was moved to the back of the lot to make room for the Comal Hotel, a two-story cream-yellow brick building with a double wooden gallery, designed and built by local master builder Christian Herry. Emilie Kuse Eggeling had the hotel built to serve the traveling salesmen and tourists drawn by the railroad and Landa Park, and she managed it until her death in 1930. Her family owned both properties for almost a century, living in the house while running the hotel. The pair illustrates German-Texan settlement architecture, late Victorian commercial building, and family enterprise.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (house) and 1900- (hotel); specific dates ca. 1850-1852 and ca. 1900-1901","architect_builder":"Christian Herry, builder (Comal Hotel)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian masonry hotel (Comal Hotel); vernacular Fachwerk dwelling influenced by Greek Revival (Klein-Kuse House)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form lists the property as both occupied and unoccupied/vacant. The hotel was renovated in 1953 and its basement is used as a restaurant; the nominated Feed Store and a 1950s kitchen building are non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:20.857236-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/9715/40971549/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86001373.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001373/6f0d15efec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001373/6f0d15efec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comal_hotel_2012.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:Comal_hotel_2012.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/40971549","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001820"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/comal-county/comal-hotel-and-klein-kuse-house-86001373/"}