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 August Faltin Building
N 29° 57.956 W 098° 54.547
14R E 508768 N 3315014
Texas Historical Marker at the 1879 store built by Hill Country businessman, August Faltin, noting his contributions to business as well as the store's history. Located at the northwest corner of Main and 7th Streets, Comfort, TX.
Waymark Code: WMM2GF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/08/2014
Views: 9
Marker Number: 237
Marker Text:
Prussian native Friedrich August Faltin (1830-1905) moved to Comfort in 1856 and purchased the general merchandise business of Theodor Goldbeck, located at this site. Trained in his father's store, which had been established about 1818 in Danzig, Prussia, now Gdansk, Poland, Faltin became a leading merchant of the Texas Hill Country. In addition, his 1869 partnership with Capt. Charles Schreiner of Kerrville became the nucleus of the vast Schreiner enterprises.
By the late 1870s Faltin's business, which included banking and post office services, had outgrown the structure at this site and he had architect Alfred Giles of San Antonio design a new building. Constructed by the noted builder J.H. Kampmann, the Victorian Italian edifice was completed in 1879.
Later run by Faltin's sons Richard and August S., the business was sold in 1907 to their brother-in-law Dan Holekamp and his sons Otto and Edgar. That same year an addition to the building was completed. Also designed by Giles, it included second floor space for meetings of fraternal and civic groups. In 1968 the property was sold back to the Faltin family.
The August Faltin Building remains as a symbol of the area's early commercial growth.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1982
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