Fredericksburg, Gillespie County
GRUEN-DOEBBLER HOUSE 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. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK – 2010