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 Splitrock (Burns-Klein House) Posted by:  QuesterMark
N 30° 17.935 W 097° 45.050
14R E 620120 N 3352569
This marker stands on a post in the front yard of the house at 2815 Wooldridge Drive in Austin.
Waymark Code: WMNTPB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2015
Views: 3
Splitrock is also on the National Register of Historic Places and is an Austin Landmark. National Register Historic District Contributing Building waymark: WMNTQA: ( visit link) Marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission. Dedicated on June 14, 2014. ( visit link) Texas Historical Commission Atlas data: Index Entry: Splitrock (Burns-Klein House) Address: 2815 Wooldridge Drive City: Austin County: Travis Subject Codes: Residential Year Marker Erected: 2013 Designations: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark Marker Size: 27" x 42" with post
Marker Number: 17636
Marker Text:
In 1891, Thomas F. Burns bought 3 ¾ acres of the Jones and Sedwick property along the west bank of Shoal Creek. Burns, a Scottish immigrant, married Arbanna J. Nelson in Travis County in 1876. Property records and lumber marked “Sutor & Co.” Date his house to circa 1892. Thomas, Arbanna and six children lived here in 1900. Thomas was listed as a stone cutter and owner of a marble shop. He added an additional acre to his homestead in 1901. Thomas’ son, Frank C. Burns, owned the Capitol City Marble Co. at 211 W. 6th Street.
In 1911, Thomas Burns sold the property to Hippolyt Dittlinger, owner of Dittlinger Roller Mills in New Braunfels. His niece, Anita Dittlinger Quinlan, and her husband, James, lived here with their three children from 1912-39. In 1939, the Quinlans moved to Fredericksburg and subdivided land surrounding the house into eight city lots on the east side of Splitrock Avenue (later Wooldridge Drive). In 1945, Anita sold the property to Joe H. Klein, Jr., and his wife, Jayne Linville Klein. The 1 ½-story frame house is a vernacular center passage dwelling, designed with three rooms on each side of the hallway. Stairs provided access to the attic and dormer bedrooms. Originally, the east side of the house, looking toward the city, was the front. When Splitrock Avenue became a designated street in Pemberton Heights, primary access was reversed and the west side became the front. The scenic property on a bluff above the creek includes numerous centuries-old live oak trees, the largest of which is a city of Austin registered tree. The house has remained largely unaltered, even as the city has expanded far beyond its once-rural setting.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2013
Marker is property of the State of Texas
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