​August Faltin Building

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Marker Text: ​Prussian native Friedrich August Faltin (1839-1905) moved to Comfort in 1856 and purchased the general merchandise business of Theodore Goldbeck, located at this site. Trained in his father's store, which had been established about 1818 in Danzig, Prussia, Danzig, 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 building 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 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 a symbol of the area's early commercial growth. (1982)

Marker No: 237

Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker

Texas Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places

Geographic: 29.965582, -98.909019

Location: ​Main and Seventh Street, Comfort