Otto Brinkmann House

Otto Brinkmann House
Otto Brinkmann House in 2009
Otto Brinkmann House
Otto Brinkmann House
Location 602 High St., Comfort, Texas
Coordinates 29°58′4″N 98°54′32″W / 29.96778°N 98.90889°W / 29.96778; -98.90889Coordinates: 29°58′4″N 98°54′32″W / 29.96778°N 98.90889°W / 29.96778; -98.90889
Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built 1861 (1861)
Built by Otto Brinkmann
Part of Comfort Historic District (#79002989[1])
NRHP reference # 77001457[1]
RTHL # 3882
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 12, 1977
Designated CP May 29, 1979
Designated RTHL 1976

The Otto Brinkmann House in Comfort, Texas, United States, was built in 1861 by Otto Brinkmann. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]

It is a one-story two-room house of fachwerk construction. It is a German method of timber framing with diagonal bracing members at corners and openings. It includes 6 inches (150 mm) by 6 inches (150 mm) cypress corner posts and top plates, with other timbers of 4 inches (100 mm) by 4 inches (100 mm) size. Timbers are joined by mortise and tenon joints. Timbers on its front facade are exposed. The house was modified in 1899 by addition of a framed lean-to along its rear facade.[2]

It was built, and lived in, by German immigrant carpenter Otto Brinkman, who was born in Hoexter, Westphalia in 1932. He completed an apprenticeship to a cabinet-maker in Germany before coming to the U.S. in 1852.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Joe R. Williams and Stanley Klein (May 5, 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Otto Brinkman House". National Archives. Missing or empty |url= (help) (accessible by searching within National Archives Catalog)

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