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Riverside Station
491 S. Main, Boerne
| ID# 27897 |
ORIGINAL USE: Grocery |
PRESENT USE: Grocery/Service Station
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CURRENT OWNER: Zoeller, LLC
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| OWNERS: Baumann; Rose; Zoeller |
LOCATION: Wendler Addition Lot # 14 |
DATE: NA Style/Period: Commercial |
HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: NO |
| BUILDERS: NA |
CONSTRUCTED OF: Wood; flat roof; commercial |
CONDITION: Good |
DESCRIPTION: Has been serving the community for many years |
HISTORY: The first blacksmith shop in Boerne was built and operated
on this corner where the River Road and Main Street meet. Mathies Baumann was
the owner and operator. Mr. Baumann, born in Germany, had arrived in Boerne in
1850. He farmed and raised cattle at one time in the north part of Boerne. He
was one of the signers of the Kendall County Petition. His first wife was Anna
Katrina Hutzler of San Antonio. Anna died in 1864. Several years later Mathies
married Friedrika Ertel. This couple had six children: Henry, Gustav, Albert,
Carolina, Philipina, and Louise. The Baumann's lived in a house which was near
the shop. The Max Richter's lived in the old home for a few years in the 1940s
and 1950s while their daughter was attending the local school. The house was
eventually purchased and moved to the lot of Eddie and Doris Zinsmeister.
The need for blacksmith shops became much less as the
automobile became the popular means of transportation. This building either was
changed to accommodate the times or was torn down to build again, it is not
known, but we do know that a filling station occupied the same corner lot in
later years. The building pictured above housed the Riverside Station. The
station was run by Buddy Rose at one time.
The creek side station was flooded many times, until finally it
was torn down and re-built behind the original building on a slope of the hill.
Source: Gray, Edith A. Recollections of Boerne and Kendall County,
1949, p. 5; Personal knowledge of Cathy Schwarz
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