The Bastrop County Historical Society Museum at 702 Main Street. The roots of the Bastrop County Historical Society museum go far deeper than its 1952 establishment...to an 1850 frame cabin built on the east bank of the Colorado River by John Cornelson. That cabin forms the central element of the present day museum.

The next chapter began in 1854, when the cabin was purchased by Joe Fehr, a furniture and cabinet maker. Mr. Fehr built an addition on the north side with bricks made by the Lottman brick kilns in the hills east of town. Read more.

The Primera Baptist Church at 306 Paul C. Bell Street. "Llenaré Esta Casa Con Gloria" reads the inscription on the pediment of the Primera Baptist Church: "I shall fill this house with glory." These words, from the Old Testament Book of Haggai, speak of God's promise for the restoration of God's Temple in Jerusalem.

And the works of this church and its congregation, over the course of more than 100 years, have resonated. Its history began in 1894 when elements of congregations of Hills Prairie and Smithville missions of the First Mexican Baptist Church in Waelder combined to establish an independent church in Bastrop: Primera Iglesia Bautista. Read more.

The Parnell Home at 1407 Main Street. This Victorian jewel box house was moved from Taylor, TX in 1993 and is a welcomed newcomer to Bastrop. Built around 1898, the house—now home to the Parnell family—is indicative of Folk Victorian structures built in America from 1879 to 1910. Often found in rural or country settings, Folk Victorian houses were often wonderfully embellished with materials and millwork that were brought in by railroad from distant fabrication sites. Consequently, local suppliers and builders increasingly had ready access to plans and quality components—doors, windows, hardware, etc.—that might be melded to meet the particular needs and desires of individual clients. Read more.

"Joe's Place" at 1817 Garfield Street. Whether for a Rotary Club wine tasting or a Bastrop Education Foundation envelope-stuffing session, homeowner Joe Newman keeps the welcome mat out. This 1986 ranch-style house was originally owned by Gayle Rathman Foster and is located on the northern edge of Bastrop's first subdivision, known formally as the Riverview Heights Addition but more often than not as the "New Addition." This moniker has persisted some 65 years...and after many more subdivisions have encircled Bastrop. Read more.

The Penzell-Tuck Home at 1503 Wilson Street.This farmhouse-style residence of local attorney Joe Grady Tuck is a study in the creative blending of old structures and materials with new. His home melds two historic structures, moved from other sites, with new construction and demonstrates a unifying vision and a respect for vintage materials. It also echoes a building technique found in some of Bastrop's older houses, where expansion occurred by attaching structures moved from elsewhere. Read more.

The H. B. Combs House at 1208 Church Street. Built by the Wilbarger Lumber Company in 1911-1912 for Dr. Henry Burris Combs, a prominent local physician, and his wife Dorothy Maude Combs, this house has been described as an "eclectic architectural mix"—a fusion of Neo-Classical themes and elements on the east facade, an essentially Victorian house plan and an interior that at once is both Neo-Classical, in the formal areas and Arts and Crafts, in the less formal areas. A Craftsman fireplace mantel facing into the family dining room and the classical mantel in adjacent front parlor echo this contrast. Read more.

The Old First National Bank at 1016 Main Street. In the aftermath of the Civil War, a series of financial panics shook the economy nationally and created some distrust of banks. Moreover, in post-Civil War Bastrop, currency was in short supply and commerce largely depended on barter and credit; merchants often held money and valuables for friends and customers in their safes. That began to change on March 21, 1889, when three experienced bankers—from Lampasas, San Marcos and Lockhart—capitalized and opened the first bank in Bastrop County, appropriately called "Bastrop County Bank." In May, a Building and Loan Association of local businessmen purchased the bank and recapitalized it as the First National Bank of Bastrop, Texas. Read more.