Conn, Adrian Edwards, House

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.