Onion Creek Post Office and Stagecoach House - Buda, TX
Posted by: 
vhasler
N 30° 05.212 W 097° 50.140
14R E 612203 N 3328982
This waymark is for a small one-room limestone post office and a stagecoach house (also known as McElroy-Severn House) located east of the town of Buda.
Waymark Code: WMKFF4
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/06/2014
Views: 4
The NRHP application (first secondary link below) relays that the post office was set up just off the stagecoach route which ran between Austin and San Antonio. It's unusual due to its solid limestone construction with two decorative etching - one above the entrance and the other on the side indicating that the building was finished in 1876 (for the country's centenial).
The adjacent home is hard to definitively set its build date which could be around 1875-1885. Original construction was two rooms with an open center passage, which was a typical design for Texas at that time period. Later renovations broke up some of the rooms.
The two buildings are now owned by the city to use as a museum and parks & recreation office.
Street address:
880 Main Street per sign in front
109 N. Loop 4 per NRHP application
Buda, TX USA
78610
County / Borough / Parish: Hays County
Year listed: 2002
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Periods of significance: 1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899
Historic function: Domestic, Government
Current function: Work In Progress > Government
Privately owned?: no
Season start / Season finish: From: 01/01/2014 To: 12/31/2014
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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