Hoag-Faubion-Fuchs House

Duane's take

Here's my telling of what the official marker has to say about the Hoag-Faubion-Fuchs House in Burnet County. Now, this house has had some characters pass through it, and I mean that in the best possible way. It starts in 1910, when a fellow named William H.

Hoag, an electrical engineer all the way from New York City, and his wife Beatrice built the place. An electrical engineer from New York City putting down roots in the Texas Hill Country. You have to wonder what Burnet County thought of that arrangement.

But there it stood. By 1914, the Hoags had sold the house to a local farmer and rancher by the name of Sam Faubion. Now Sam didn't move in himself.

He rented the home out, and here's where it gets interesting, because the man he rented it to was Albano J. Fuchs. And friend, Albano J.

Fuchs was not a man who settled for one profession. The marker calls him a rancher, a farmer, a piano tuner, and a Burnet County Commissioner. All four.

His wife Georgia rounded out the household, and together they occupied a home that had already crossed from a New York engineer's vision into local hands. Sam Faubion's son Jonathan eventually inherited the house in 1940, and it stayed in the Faubion family until 1946. That's a good stretch of one family's name on a roof.

The house itself is no small part of this story. It's considered an early example of the arts and crafts bungalow style, and it features something the marker specifically calls out as uncommon: the porch configuration. Six bays, columns, a solid balustrade.

A New York engineer, a Hill Country rancher-farmer-piano tuner-commissioner, and one quietly distinctive porch. Not a bad combination for a local landmark.

What the marker says

William H. Hoag, an electrical engineer from New York City, and his wife Beatrice built this house in 1910. The Hoags sold the house to local farmer and rancher Sam Faubion in 1914. Faubion rented the home to rancher, farmer, piano tuner, and Burnet County Commissioner Albano J. Fuchs and his wife Georgia. Faubion's son, Jonathan, inherited the house in 1940 and it remained in the Faubion family until 1946. A local landmark, the house is an early example of the arts & crafts bungalow style. It features an uncommon porch configuration and six bays with columns on a solid balustrade. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1995