Hauschild Opera House

George Hauschild's name runs through this corner of town, not only over the stage door. He came from Hanover in 1866, ran the Hermann House hotel for more than thirty years, and served over twenty years as a school trustee and fourteen on the city council. A two-story brick building of 1905, designed by Jules Leffland, housed his cigar manufacturing business. His own wooden Victorian house, built about 1900 with a three-story turret, stands on the same street. Architectural guides date the opera house itself to 1893 and note that it has been heavily altered.

What the plaque says

Hauschild Opera House German native George Herman Hauschild (1839-1911) came to Victoria shortly after his marriage to Adele Luder in 1866. A prominent pioneer businessman, Hauschild opened an opera house here in 1894. The theatre, which occupied the top two floors, featured Vaudeville shows, plays, and silent movies. The lower floor of the building was occupied by Hauschild's Music Store, established in 1891 by H.J. Hauschild (b. 1870), who succeeded his father as manager of the opera house. The theatre closed during the 1930s due to the increasing popularity of "talking pictures". 1984

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — steps away
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 1.7 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church — steps away
• De Leon Plaza — steps away
• Viola Case — steps away
• Brownson's Bank — steps away