Texas Historical Marker

Bartels-Wirtz House

Columbus · Colorado County · placed 1973 · Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

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Colorado County, Texas

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Distinctions of this Victorian cottage: gable window with star tracery, decorative bargeboard, carpenter's lace. Stained glass entrance doors are duplicated at back of the front hall. Anton Bartles, from Aldenburg, North Germany, came here in 1869; built this house about 1886; was an Alderman, 1889.

Later owners have included the Will Wirtz family in 1920s and 30s; Felix Fehrenkamp; Mrs. Isabel Moeller. RTHL 1973

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