By moving the office from Georgetown to Fredericksburg, we hope to increase the visibility of our organization and cause. We have located a small historic house on the grounds of the Gillespie County Historical Society as our home. We hope that many of the more than a million annual visitors to Fredericksburg will find their way to our office to check us out.
The new state office building will be located at 320 West San Antonio in Fredericksburg. The core of the house was built in the early 1880’s by the Staudt family and used as a Sunday House. At that time families that lived in the country often built a small two-story two-room house in town where they could stay on weekends when they shopped for supplies on Saturday and attended church on Sunday. The house was eventually passed to the Jenschke family who added several room and converted it to a family residence.
The house is owned by the Gillespie County Historical Society. Our Fredericksburg Chapter placed a demonstration garden on the adjacent Pioneer Museum grounds about seven years ago and still maintain the garden and other flower beds on the grounds. Both societies are pleased that the building will be used to promote native plants.
Several early German settlers including Ferdinand Lindheimer had strong interests in the native plants of the Texas Hill Country.
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