Now here's another "hobby house" candidate.
Built 1930, as a dealer, probably many things auto-related or other in 100 years. 300 NE Barnard, Glen Rose, Tx. This is the former Lane & Sons Motor Company.
So, what's so cool here?
The construction is brick, concrete, indigenous rocks, & local petrified wood (100 million year old trees that fell into what what was then mud, when much of Central Texas had been underwater/marshy, and turned into rocks eventually).
Back when the area was settled/built, the locals used what they had a LOT of CHEAP to build things. The walls are interlaced with "translucent quartz" (called "isinglass") to dress things up.
These materials have been there all those eons of course. But in the 1920's, Henry Ford made tractors affordable to farmers all over USA. "Harvesting" these ancient rocks got a lot easier and therefore more abundance for local use.
Many OTHER buildings/structures have these materials in the area BTW, including a house right across the street (307 NE Barnard)
About 5,000 sq. ft (half the size I need), it has character. Its a historical structure candidate too. Clearly without AC as well. Old enough, if not done already, to need other environmental remediation. Large empty lot to the north that may go with it (there's a garage door on that side.),''
Looks like left 1/2 was showroom/office, with right side was overhead vehicle doors (filled in in the past).
source: Auto dealership, 300 NE Barnard St, Glen Rose | THC.Texas.gov - Texas Historical Commission,
https://texashighways.com/travel-ne...-told-through-its-prehistoric-petrified-wood/
Built 1930, as a dealer, probably many things auto-related or other in 100 years. 300 NE Barnard, Glen Rose, Tx. This is the former Lane & Sons Motor Company.
So, what's so cool here?
The construction is brick, concrete, indigenous rocks, & local petrified wood (100 million year old trees that fell into what what was then mud, when much of Central Texas had been underwater/marshy, and turned into rocks eventually).
Back when the area was settled/built, the locals used what they had a LOT of CHEAP to build things. The walls are interlaced with "translucent quartz" (called "isinglass") to dress things up.
These materials have been there all those eons of course. But in the 1920's, Henry Ford made tractors affordable to farmers all over USA. "Harvesting" these ancient rocks got a lot easier and therefore more abundance for local use.
Many OTHER buildings/structures have these materials in the area BTW, including a house right across the street (307 NE Barnard)
About 5,000 sq. ft (half the size I need), it has character. Its a historical structure candidate too. Clearly without AC as well. Old enough, if not done already, to need other environmental remediation. Large empty lot to the north that may go with it (there's a garage door on that side.),''
Looks like left 1/2 was showroom/office, with right side was overhead vehicle doors (filled in in the past).
source: Auto dealership, 300 NE Barnard St, Glen Rose | THC.Texas.gov - Texas Historical Commission,
https://texashighways.com/travel-ne...-told-through-its-prehistoric-petrified-wood/
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