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TEXAS - Kendall County - Historic Districts

Comfort Historic District ** (added 1979 - Kendall County - #79002989) TX 27, Comfort (850 acres, 77 buildings) Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Architect, builder, or engineer: Multiple Architectural Style: Late Victorian, No Style Listed Area of Significance: Architecture, Social History, Community Planning And Development Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924 Owner: Private , Local Gov't Historic Function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic Historic Sub-function: Business, Single Dwelling, Village Site Current Function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic Current Sub-function: Business, Single Dwelling, Village Site Comfort Historic District (Boundary Increase) (added 2004 - Kendall County - #04000911) Roughly bounded by TX 27. Lindner Ave., Cypress Creek, First St., and Front St.,, Comfort (1925 acres, 104 buildings, 17 structures, 1 object) Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Architect, builder, or engineer: Giles, Alfred, et.al. Architectural Style: Modern Movement, Queen Anne Area of Significance: Architecture, Community Planning And Development Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924, 1925-1949, 1950-1974 Owner: Private Historic Function: Agriculture/Subsistence, Commerce/Trade, Education, Government, Recreation And Culture, Religion, Social Historic Sub-function: Business, Fire Station, Meeting Hall, Religious Structure, School, Storage, Theater Current Function: Agriculture/Subsistence, Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Education, Government, Recreation And Culture, Social Current Sub-function: Business, Fire Station, Meeting Hall, School, Single Dwelling, Storage, Theater Sisterdale Valley District (added 1975 - Kendall County - #75001996) SR 1376, Sisterdale (28930 acres, 15 buildings, 6 structures) Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Architect, builder, or engineer: Unknown Architectural Style: No Style Listed Area of Significance: Architecture, Military, Health/Medicine Period of Significance: 1825-1849, 1850-1874 Owner: Private Historic Function: Commerce/Trade, Defense, Domestic, Health Care Historic Sub-function: Business, Military Facility, Resort, Single Dwelling Current Function: Domestic Current Sub-function: Single Dwelling

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