Gruen-Doebbler Homestead

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Medallion & Plate

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Marker No: 16454

Texas Historic Landmark

Geographic: 30.1443. -98.8393

Location: 1251 Doebbler Road, Fredericksburg

Marker Text: ​The earliest part of this two-story, side-gabled structure was built in the late 1800S by early area pioneer Ludwig Doebbler. He constructed the house out of native rubble limestone for his son-in-law, Friedrich Gruen, and his daughter, Mathilda, whose 1937 memoir is an important historical account of the life of a pioneer woman. Mathilda’s brother, Alfred Gustav Doebbler, purchased the property in 1896. A respected stonemason, he added dressed stone, tripling the size of the house and moving the door to the center of the footprint. Alfred’s son, Walter, enclosed a wooden addition and porch around 1971. (2010)