Gus F. Schreiner Home

Gus Schreiner was born at Turtle Creek in 1866 and attended a New York business college in 1884-85. He rode on cattle drives in 1889 and 1890 and ran Schreiner Land and Livestock from 1887 until 1962, earning the names dean of Hill Country ranchers and father of Kerrville. Governors Dan Moody and Ross Sterling appointed him to the state game commission, which credited him with preserving the Hill Country deer. He also bred thoroughbreds and gave about $500,000 to Schreiner Institute, serving as a trustee from 1923 until 1962.

What the plaque says

Gus F. Schreiner Home In 1883 wealthy rancher and banker Charles Schreiner bought this land. His son Gus F. (1866-1962) later acquired the property. In 1901 Gus and his wife Huldah (Rummel) (1872-1943) erected the first floor of this house, called "Cedarcrest". "Mr. Gus" operated Schreiner Land and Livestock Co. and served on Texas Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission. This farm, active for 60 years, had corn fields, horse pastures, a garden, fruit trees, stables and a smokehouse. With the addition of a second story and extensive remodeling in 1916 and 1919, the house became a showplace and center of social activities. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Schreiner Mansion — 1.6 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Treue der Union Monument — 14 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 20 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.
• Frontier Times Museum — 21 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.

More markers nearby

• Schreiner College (Schreiner Institute) — 0.6 mi
• Saint Peter's Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi
• Notre Dame Catholic Church — 1.4 mi
• Christian Dietert Mill — 1.4 mi