The August Baron House at 1707 Pecan Street. The home at 1707 Pecan Street began life as a typical frame farmhouse from 1880s Bastrop—originally a dog-trot design of four rooms arrayed in an “L” shape, with a detached kitchen, and sitting with a number of outbuildings on a farmstead of eight acres.   Ceilings are 10 feet high; foundation piers are large cedar stumps; attic beams are hand-hewn cypress; clapboards and interior wall surfaces are of cypress, and framing, trim and flooring are of long leaf pine.

This was the work of Louis Baron, a furniture maker, carpenter and farmer, who immigrated to Texas from Germany in 1850 when he was about 6. Read more.

Calvary Episcopal Church at 603 Spring Street. The cornerstone of Calvary Episcopal Church reads A.D.1881, marking the construction of the oldest church edifice in Bastrop County. Calvary also has the distinction of being the first building in the community to receive a Texas State Historical medallion (1962.)

Completed in 1883, this Gothic Revival styled structure is in simplified cruciform, or cross-shaped plan, with buttressed pilasters capped with limestone and lancet windows. Read more.

The Cochran - Watson Home at 1206 Pecan Street. The Cochran-Watson home has borne witness to 70 years of Bastrop history and has evolved with it.

It was built as the 1940s began, an era that ushered in the World War II-era Camp Swift, a major Army installation nearby that would support at its peak as many as 90,000 troops, that would put great pressure on Bastrop’s housing market and that would transform Bastrop physically, culturally and economically. Read more.

The H. P. Luckett House at 1402 Church Street. The H.P. Luckett House at 1402 Church Street is a classic Queen Anne confection and one of Bastrop’s most photogenic historic landmarks.   And it replaces a landmark as well: the house occupies part of what was once the campus of the Bastrop Academy—later the Bastrop Military Institute—demolished in the late 1800s.  (A granite marker at the front corner of the lot commemorates the institution.) Read more.

Mina - Bastrop Pioneers Home: Fisk - Halderman - Taylor at 1005 Hill Street. The cabin-like simplicity of 1005 Hill Street belies a storied place in Bastrop history. The structure dates from the Texas Revolution and once served as a stagecoach inn along El Camino Real, the colonial era trail that cut across old Bastrop on its route from San Antonio east to Nacogdoches and beyond. Read more.

The Elbert S. Orgain House at 1704 Main Street. Benjamin D. Orgain, a respected local attorney at the turn of the century, presented this magnificent house at 1704 Main as a wedding gift to his son, Elbert Sayers Orgain and Elbert’s bride, Louise Nichols Orgain. This stately Classical Revival style house—built around 1914, the year of their marriage—served as their home until 1970, shortly after Louise’s death. Early in his career, Elbert was a partner with John Belto in the Belto Coal Company, a lignite mine located north of Bastrop between the city and Phelan. According to the 1930 census, “insurance” was his occupation as well.  The Orgains had one child, Franklin D. Orgain (1916-1972). Read more.