This photo journal features 3 more communities in Hill Country - Comfort, Blanco & Sisterdale.
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Comfort Blanco Sisterdale locator map
Blanco, where my daughter lives, is 52 miles north of Austin. Comfort is 42...
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COMFORT - population about 2500,
is known for its antique shopping, restaurants, bed and breakfasts,...
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Comfort Cloisters was an historic 1920s
limestone church which operated as a Methodist church until 2001. It is now...
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Unidentified church
Like many Hill Country communities, Comfort was established in 1854 by German...
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St Boniface Church (1960)
This was/is an Episcopal church. It was /is for sale?
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Church sign
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Ingenhuett's Fancy Grocery and General
Store was destroyed by fire in 2007. Interesting article about the old store:...
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Historic Ingenhuett-Faust Hotel (1880)
is now the Comfort Common Hotel. Their web site:...
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Historic marker
Comfort's downtown area is possibly one of the most well-preserved...
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The 1908 State Bank building
now serves as a museum. It was built with locally quarried limestone...
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Gass Schmiede, 1890
This limestone-block building was built as a blacksmith shop...
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The historic marker
Comfort was established by German immigrants moving further west from New...
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The 1879 August Faltin Building
is now Comfort Crockery, an arts & crafts store:...
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Peter Ingenhuett building (1891)
aka Ingenhuett-Karger Saloon, started as a saloon operated by Peter...
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Closeup
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Old Post Office Building, 1908
is now a bistro.
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1916 Arno Schwethelm Memorial Building
is on the right. The local limestone building is now home to the town library.
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Gael's Comfort Barber Shop
a local institution & one of the longest standing barber shops in Texas.
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Old fashion soda fountain
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Comfort 'Meet' Market.
The sign in the window says Friday and Saturday nights.
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Unidentified building
with a house & gazebo in the back yard.
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Interesting 'alley'
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German Freethinkers plaque
It is interesting to note that Comfort has never been incorporated.
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Unidentified
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Unidentfied
Looks like a school?
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